Spot the planet
The Hubble Space Telescope may have snapped the first image of a planet in another solar system. Extrasolar planets are usually hard to see directly, but this one’s infrared glow is visible because it appears to be orbiting a dim white dwarf at a great distance. To confirm it is not a star, astronomers will look again in several months’ time.
Flu link to mental illness
Flu may be to blame for up to 14 per cent of schizophrenia cases. People whose mothers had flu during the first three months of pregnancy had seven times the normal…
