Fomalhaut b, a directly imaged exoplanet This false-color composite image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals the orbital motion of the planet Fomalhaut b. Visible light image of Fomalhaut A and its debris ring with the dazzling star itself coronagraph masked and an inset showing the orbit of what has been dubbed the exoplanet Fomalhaut b, a.k.a., Dagon, over the course of eight years on its highly elliptical 1,700-year orbit about its parent star. The Hubble data represent the first visible-light image … This image shows Fomalhaut, the star around which the newly discovered planet Fomalhaut b orbits. Some astronomers now say it was a cloud of asteroid debris. Fomalhaut b was one of the first planets around another star to be directly imaged by telescopes. Perhaps, Fomalhaut b disappeared before the Hubble's eyes, the study authors wrote, because Fomalhaut b was never a planet in the first place; … The Fomalhaut system is located approximately 25 light-years from the Earth. Thus, we consider 1.16 AU