First directly imaged exosolar planets

This is a few days out of date but was not covered too well by the media imo. Recently two nearby planetary star systems were succesfully imaged for the first time.

BBC news link showing both images and a video clip

The planet imaged around Fomalhaut Type A3V star only 25 light years away.


More images of this system

And the three planets around HR 8799 a star 129 light years away with a complex spectral type perhaps influenced by the extensive dust cloud around it.



There are currently 326 confirmed exosolar planets out there, there are also 3 other systems that were imaged with unconfirmed planets (they may be brown dwarfs) GQ Lupi, AB Pictoris, SCR 1845b

And an artists concept of an exoplanet (nasa)