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Originally Posted by poider
G'day, I don't know if this is the right place to ask, so I will cross my fingers and hold my breath...
Have astronomers taken any optical photos of any of the planets outside of our solar system, and if so is there a list or a website with any of these documented?
Peter
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They have, though they are still just pixel blips. If you go to the wikipedia page of
directly observed exoplanets, you'll find images like this one
But for actual surface features, the best we've been able to do so far is to image Betelgeuse, which is gigantic, even for a star, but it's big enough you can see some surface features on it. Still blows me away to this day that we can do this.
Markus