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In one of the biggest breakthrough in astronomy, a team of American, British and Canadian astronomers and physicists at NASA and the Lawrence Livermore National Library have snapped pictures of four recently discovered planets orbiting the same star and the other circling another sun.

Below is the artist’s concept of the star Fomalhaut and the Jupiter-type planet that the Hubble Space Telescope observed. A ring of debris appears to surround Fomalhaut as well. The planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the 200-million-year-old star every 872 years. Credit: ESA, NASA, and L. Calcada (ESO for STScI)

This visible-light image below from the Hubble shows the newly discovered planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting its parent star. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, and E. Kite (UCB), M. Clampin (GSFC), M. Fitzgerald (LLNL), K. Stapelfeldt, J. Krist (JPL)

Ground-based image showing Fomalhaut’s location. Credit: A. Fujii, NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)

Ground-based image showing Fomalhaut’s location. Credit: A. Fujii, NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)

This is Fomalhaut b’s path around its star. The red dot represents the planet, the white dot represents the star, and the brown ring represents the debris disk. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

The report also indicated that none of the four extrasolar giant gaseous planets are remotely habitable but they raise the possibility of other more hospitable worlds being discovered.

Anyway, who knows? There could be another ‘earth’ out there to explore, right? And maybe, just maybe – earthlings like us could not be the only species living in the universe! What do you think, guys and gals?