Now This is Moderately Interesting

From CNN:

After a few close calls, astronomers have finally obtained the first photograph of a planet beyond our solar system, SPACE.com has learned.

The planet is thought to be one to two times as massive as Jupiter. It orbits a star similar to a young version of our sun.

The star, GQ Lupi, has been observed by a team of European astronomers since 1999. They have made three images using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile.

But you might want to close your eyes for the part where they talk about a fairly new solar system and a young star and crap like that which suggests Earth isn't the only planet out there and that science knows anything. I mean, a term like Big Bang Theory has three strikes against it already:

* Scientists came up with it
* The term includes the word, bang
* Tom DeLay's sure that other planets are where alien workers come from