Hubble Observes Planet Orbiting Star

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture images of a planet that orbits a star. Pictures of the planet orbiting the southern star called Fomalhaut were presented in the November 14 issue of Science magazine.

According to NASA, the planet holds less than three times Jupiter’s mass and the star belongs to the Piscis Australis constellation, which is also known as the Southern Fish.

An infrared photo of a planet orbiting a star 25 light-years away was among them. The astronomers believe the planted is the coolest and also the lowest-mass object outside our Solar System.

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