Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star outside our solar system

Are we alone in this Universe? Dont think so... latest report from NASA suggest planets similar to earth orbit stars million light years away from us! GOD has perfectly made it so that no Human will ever reach/ contact his counter part!

From images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, for the first time astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star outside our solar system.

The planet, Fomalhaut b, maintains an orbit around the star Fomalhaut and has three times the mass of Jupiter.

"Our Hubble observations were incredibly demanding. Fomalhaut b is 1 billion times fainter than the star. We began this program in 2001, and our persistence finally paid off," said Hubble astronomer Paul Kalas, of the University of California at Berkeley.



The inset shows the orbit of Fomalhaut b and its location in 2004 and 2006 (inset). A year on Fomalhaut b is equal to 872 Earth years.



The Fomalhaut system is 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis or "Southern Fish."



omalhaut is about 10.7 billion miles away from its sun--about 10 times the distance from the planet Saturn to our sun.



An uncluttered view of the Fomalhaut star system--minus the star itself.



An artist's illustration shows the brown and gold colors that surround Fomalhaut b.