First glimpses of 2 distant planets

As a boy I used to imagine the day when humanity could venture out into space, and explore the vast reaches of space beyond the solar system, seeing new worlds orbiting stars, worlds where the night sky might include our own star as merely one distant orb burning among many.

First glimpses of 2 distant planets

For the first time, we have seen the shimmer of another solar system's world. Of course, these are probably Jupiter sized planets or bigger; but this is a first step. Perhaps someday we will have telescopes powerful enough to see the clouds, lands, and seas of a far away somewhere we can never go.