Discovery of a new planet

Scientists have snapped the first images of a planet outside our solar system that is orbiting a star very much like the sun.

University of Toronto scientists said they used the Gemini North telescope on Mama Kea in Hawaii to take direct pictures of the planet, which is about the size of Jupiter but with eight times the mass. It is also much hotter than Jupiter.

This planet and the star it seems to orbit are located in our Milky Way galaxy about 500 light years from Earth the scientists said.

Of all known extra-solar planets, this one is orbiting the farthest from its star. It is located roughly 11 times farther from its star than Neptune- the outermost planet in our solar system- is located from the sun, the scientists said.