# @ESO on Twitter

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://twitter.com/ESO/status/1726930946837058022
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/28629233-ESO-twitter
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/610d9ba35e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-11-21T11:49:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** ESO (@ESO) — https://gondola.cc/ESO

## Caption

#OTD in 2008 we released the first direct image of exoplanet #BetaPictoris b, taken with the now retired NACO instrument at #VLT:
 
 https://t.co/HlRECBkg43
 
Many more "firsts" enabled by direct images of Beta Pictoris b followed, see below! 👇
 
📷 ESO/A.-M. Lagrange et al. https://t.co/nYOyCGlxAg

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## Tags

betapictoris, vlt, otd

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