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This is SOOOO cool!!.<br /><br />"The closest planet outside our solar system orbits a young Sun-like star only 10.5 light years away—so close that telescopes might soon be able to snap pictures of it, new observations confirm. About 1.5 more massive than Jupiter, the planet takes 7-years to circle its star, Epsilon Eridani. . . .<br /> <br />Astronomers think enough starlight might be reflected off the planet when it makes its nearest approach to Epsilon Eridani in 2007 for Hubble and other telescopes to image it.<br /><br />http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061009_nearest_exoplanet.html<br /><br />Also:<br />http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/32/text/<br />It is AMAZING, that in a little over ten years we have gone from zero known Extra-Solar planets to (hopefully) being able to photograph one.<br />