Images: Hubble observes planet orbiting another star

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.

Photo by NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Caption by Andy Smith