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This is definitely exciting news. There were actually two big  
announcements today:

---> Hubble has taken a photo of a planet about three times the mass  
of Jupiter, orbiting the bright southern star Fomalhaut.
<http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/39/text/>
<http://www.universetoday.com/2008/11/13/hubble-take-first-visible- 
light-image-of-extrasolar-planet/>
<http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/heic0821a.html>

---> The Gemini North telescope at the Keck Observatory has imaged  
three planets, a "planetary family", around a young, massive star  
called HR 8799.
<http://www.gemini.edu/threeplanetspr>
<http://www.universetoday.com/2008/11/13/first-image-of-another-multi- 
planet-solar-system/>

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Anna Hurst
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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San Francisco, CA 94112
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