First photograph of a planet orbiting another star

The new planet is to the right of its star in the photograph above.

Researchers at Germany's Astrophysical Institute & University Observatory will report, in an upcoming issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics, that the planet has a mass one to two times that of Jupiter.

Its surface temperature is 3,140°F (2,000°C), and its atmosphere contains water and carbon monoxide.

The planet orbits its star, GQ Lupi, once every 1,200 years.

It is about one hundred times farther away from GQ Lupi than is Earth from the sun.

GQ Lupi is a young star, about 1 million to two million years old, and is about 400 light-years away from Earth.

One light year equals 5.89 trillion miles.

It's a long, long journey to this distant star and planet, absent technology not yet born nor, perhaps, even envisioned.

Did someone say "tesseract"?