2 extrasolar planets observed from Earth with small telescopes!

[Rihard]

http://www.spacedail...lanets_999.html

One planet is located in the constellation Andromeda. Dubbed KELT-1b, it is so massive that it may better be described as a 'failed star' rather than a planet. A super hot, super dense ball of metallic hydrogen, KELT-1b is located so close to its star that it whips through an entire "yearly" orbit in a little over a day - all the while being blasted by six thousand times the radiation Earth receives from the sun.

The other planet, KELT-2Ab, is located in the constellation Auriga, and is typical of many previously discovered extrasolar planets in that it much resembles our own Jupiter. But its parent star is very bright - so bright that astronomers believe that they will be able to directly observe KELT-2Ab's atmosphere by studying the starlight that shines through it and the infrared heat that radiates from it-using telescopes located not only in space, but also on the ground.

Now, does that mean that we might all be able to observe / image those relatively tiny dots ?

It sounds cool !

[Spikey]

Would be nice to think so but I doubt it, I think these exoplanets are discovered via the transit method and not directly observable.