![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508032257im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field UC Berkeley Astronomers Lead Hubble Team in Capturing First Optical Photos of Exoplanet
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November 13, 2008
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Hundreds of exoplanets have been inferred from the wobble of a star and infrared images of purported planets have been published, but a Hubble Space Telescope team, led by the University of California - Berkeley's Paul Kalas, has now obtained the first optical image of a planet. Only 25 light years away, the Jupiter-size planet is like Neptune in that it sculpts the inner edge of a belt of comets and debris, the equivalent of our Kuiper belt.
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Source University of California - Berkeley
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