This past July, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Until now, astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a Sun like star. But what's so special about this, how was it accomplished, and does it reveal anything about our own Sun? Dr. Matthew Kenworthy and Alexander Bohn of Leiden Observatory tell us all about it.

Article: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2011/

Research Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba27e

SPHERE: https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/paranal-observatory/vlt/vlt-instr/sphere/

Publication: https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2011/eso2011a.pdf

Leiden Observatory

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/astronomy

Matthew Kenworthy Twitter: @mattkenworthy https://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~kenworthy/

Alexander Bohn Twitter: @ajbohn https://home.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~bohn/

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