The instrument is currently being calibrated and its first exoplanet observations are expected to begin in the summer of 2014.
It is the most planets ever announced in a single day during the exoplanet era.
Up until the year 2010, telescopes could only directly image exoplanets under exceptional circumstances.
It is even less massive than some known exoplanets.
Since the first discovery in 1992, over 850 new exoplanets have been cataloged.
However unlike most other known exoplanets, its eccentricity is not known, but it is typical that its inclination is not known.
Next is a summary of the rapidly changing state of play in the search for extrasolar planets or exoplanets.
A year later, this detection was confirmed as the first picture of an exoplanet ever recorded.
