Two groups of scientists have taken, what they believe, the first pictures of an extrasolar planet, that is, a planet outside of our solar system, according to an article in the New York Times.
Scientists from the Herzburg Institute of Astrophysics in Vancouver, Canada have recorded three planets orbiting a star named HR 8799 and from the University of California, Berkeley have taken pictures of a planet orbiting the star Formalhaut.
The successful pictures are due in part to an emerging technology, adaptive optics, in which mirrors are jiggled in order to adapt to the typical atmospheric turbulence that blurs images of stars.
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