Today, astronomers at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) released the first series of scientific results from the LBT, including images of extrasolar planets. The LBT has two 8.4 m borosilicate glass honeycomb primary mirrors spaced apart 14.4 m center-to-center, allowing the IR telescope to achieve the diffraction-limited imaging of a single mirror with a 22.8 m aperture. Adaptive-optics secondary mirrors correct for atmospheric turbulence. The LBT is located on Mt. Graham in southeastern Arizona. "With this unrivaled new technology, we can now probe the close-in environments of nearby stars with a clarity that was previously not possible," said Richard Green,...