Yeah! What you see in front of your eyes is one of the first images of a solar system something! It looks to me like an iris after being color inverted in photoshop (just in case you were thinking the same thing). But it really is a solar… something.

The word on the street up ‘til now, was that stars are way too bright to be actually captured on camera. Apparently a coronograph was used, which masked one star, so that pictures could be taken of planets which, in other conditions, would be invisible to the eye/lens.

But this isn’t everything! They did use some new imaging techniques to take these pics in the outer space! I think I need one of those cameras too!