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May 28, 1998


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Hubble Takes First Image of a Possible Planet Around Another Star and Finds a Runaway World

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their first direct look at what is possibly a planet outside our solar system -- one apparently that has been ejected into deep space by its parent stars.

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