First Image of an Exoplanet (Print Only) Food & Drink Butterfly Leaves by Victoria Watt

Butterfly Leaves by Victoria Watt

New Life (Print Only) by Balazs Solti

Beautiful dream II (Print Only) by Balazs Solti

Snow leopard by Yetiland

First Image of an Exoplanet (Print Only) Food & Drink Butterfly Leaves by Victoria WattThis composite image shows an exoplanet (the red spot on the lower left), orbiting the brown dwarf 2M1207 (centre). 2M1207b is the first exoplanet directly imaged and the first discovered orbiting a brown dwarf (see the press release). It was imaged the first time by the VLT in 2004. Its planetary identity and characteristics were confirmed after one year of observations in 2005. 2M1207b is a Jupiter like planet, 5 times more massive than Jupiter. It