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The First Photograph of a Planet Outside Our Solar System (1995)
This historic photograph was taken in 1995 and is the first photograph ever taken of a planet outside of our Solar System. It was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and shows a planet orbiting a star known as Gliese 229, located about 50 light years away from Earth. This photograph was a
From Wikipedia
The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the masses that orbit it, most prominently its eight planets, of which Earth is one. The Solar System is an isolated single-star planetary system within the Milky Way Galaxy. The system formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region of a molecular cloud collapsed, creating the Sun and a protoplanetary disc from which the orbiting bodies assembled.