{"id":52000,"date":"2020-07-23T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2669468"},"modified":"2020-07-23T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T17:35:00","slug":"first-ever-direct-image-of-two-giant-planets-orbiting-sun-like-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/first-ever-direct-image-of-two-giant-planets-orbiting-sun-like-star\/","title":{"rendered":"First-ever direct image of two giant planets orbiting Sun-like star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3998-ICN.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-lead\">\n<div class=\"FullscreenCarousel-cover\">\n<div class=\"CarouselSlide\">\n<div class=\"CarouselSlide-media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"0\" class=\"Image lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.newatlas.com\/dims4\/default\/e0a44a6\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4248x2832+4+0\/resize\/1200x800!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewatlas-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F92%2Fef%2F9a8ef176468aba6f4c9f7af25669%2Fvlt.jpg\" alt=\"The Very Large Telescope (VLT), which captured the new image\" width=\"698\" height=\"465\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"CarouselSlide-info\">\n<div class=\"CarouselSlide-caption\">\n<div class=\"CarouselSlide-infoDescription\">The Very Large Telescope (VLT), which captured the new image<\/div>\n<div class=\"CarouselSlide-infoAttribution\">G. H&uuml;depohl (<a class=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/atacamaphoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">atacamaphoto.com<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleContainer\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body RichTextBody\">\n<p>Although astronomers have detected more than 4,000 planets outside our solar system, most of them appear as points of data or dips in light charts. Now, astronomers have captured a very rare sight, with an image of two exoplanets orbiting a star very much like our own.<\/p>\n<p>The team says that this is the first time two exoplanets have been directly imaged orbiting a Sun-like star. But as similar as it is, this star is much younger than our own. At just 17 million years old, it&rsquo;s a cosmic infant compared to the middle-aged Sun, which is about 4.6 billion years old. The planets are still very young too, and the heat from their recent formation is what makes them shine so bright.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&rsquo;t the only cosmic baby photo that the VLT has taken recently. Back in May the&nbsp;<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/space\/images-forming-exoplanet-ab-aurigae\/?itm_source=newatlas&amp;itm_medium=article-body\">telescope imaged<\/a>&nbsp;what looked like a planet in the process of being formed, in a thick cloud of dust and gas surrounding another young star.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/space\/images-forming-exoplanet-ab-aurigae\/?itm_source=newatlas&#038;itm_medium=article-body\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/space\/images-forming-exoplanet-ab-aurigae\/?itm_source=newatlas&#038;itm_medium=article-body<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Michael Irving<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Michael Irving<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3998-ICN.png\" alt=\"\">The Very Large Telescope (VLT), which captured the new image G. H&uuml;depohl (atacamaphoto.com) Although astronomers have detected more than 4,000 planets outside our solar system, most of them appear as points of data or dips in light charts. Now, astronomers have captured a very rare sight, with an image of two exoplanets orbiting a star &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/23\/first-ever-direct-image-of-two-giant-planets-orbiting-sun-like-star\/\">Continue reading <span>First-ever direct image of two giant planets orbiting Sun-like star<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/first-ever-direct-image-of-two-giant-planets-orbiting-sun-like-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>First-ever direct image of two giant planets orbiting Sun-like star - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/first-ever-direct-image-of-two-giant-planets-orbiting-sun-like-star\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First-ever direct image of two giant planets orbiting Sun-like star - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Very Large Telescope (VLT), which captured the new image G. 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