Those who hunt the night skies in search of worlds beyond our own have had much to hang their laurels on in the past 30 years. From the first confirmation of planets orbiting a star other than our own back in 1992, exoplanet hunting has become a huge deal, with more than 4,000 confirmed to be orbiting more than 3,000 stars so far.
But it's one thing to know those planets are there - the one thing we haven't really been able to do is see them.