Astronomers capture first-ever image of two exoplanets orbiting a 17M year-old Sun-like star

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT) has captured the first-ever image that captures two exoplanets orbiting a Sun-like star. As the ESO explains in its blog post on the impressive feat, observing systems with multiple exoplanets is 'extremely rare' and, until this image, astronomers had never 'directly observed' multiple planets orbiting a young star. Credit: ESO/Bohn et al. In this groundbreaking image, captured by the SPHERE instrument onboard the ESO VLT, two 'g...