Alien blue dot spotted: Imager opens new window on exoplanets

Sunday, January 12, 2014 - 04:10 in Astronomy & Space

The first images from the world's most advanced instrument for seeing planets beyond our solar system show a pale blue dot around an alien star, a faraway dusty disk and a closer-in target: the surface of Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter.

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