«Finally, we now have
separate images where you can see, actually see, the planet,» says
astronomer Mark Marley
of the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., who did not participate in the research but wrote an article for Science summarizing and analyzing the
teams» results.
On May 21, 2002, a
team of astronomers (Patrick J. Lowrance, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, and Charles A. Beichman) announced that Upsilon Andromedae has a dim stellar companion B that shares the same common proper motion as Star A. Upsilon Andromedae B currently is
separated from Star A by around 750 AUs.