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The direct image of GJ 758 B (circled as B) was taken with the Subaru Telescope's HiCIAO instrument in the near infrared. An unconfirmed companion planet or planet-like object, C, can be viewed above B. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy/National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

Astronomers say they have taken the first direct image of a planet-like object orbiting a star much like our own sun.
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Impossible

Does not want yesterday,

Does not want tomorrow,

Believes only in today,

Believes only in perpetual motion.

the map is not the territory

In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guild drew a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, coinciding point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography saw the vast Map to be Useless and permitted it to decay and fray under the Sun and winters.

In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of the Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; and in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.

Jorge Luis Borges, from "On Exactitude and Science"