Taking the Long View
In mid-November, just a week after Barack Obama was elected president, another bit of news electrified a community of New Yorkers. Members of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York gathered for their regular meeting on November 22nd and discussed the latest leap in space discovery. For the first time, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope took an image of a planet in another solar system: a body approximately three times the size of Jupiter, orbiting the southern star Fomalhaut.