works better with planets with face-on orbits rather than edge-on orbits, as a planet in a face-on orbit is observable during the entirety of the planet's orbit, while planets with edge-on orbits are most easily observable during their period of largest apparent separation from the parent star. The planets detected through direct imaging currently fall into two categories. First, planets are found around stars more massive than the Sun which are young enough to have protoplanetary disks. The second category consists of possible sub-brown dwarfs found around very dim stars, or brown dwarfs which are at least 100 AU away from their parent stars. Planetary-mass objects not gravitationally bound to a star are found through direct imaging as well. Early discoveries In 2004, a group of astronomers used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope array in Chile to produce an image of 2M1207b, a companion to the brown dwarf 2M1207. In the following year, the planetary status of the companion was confirmed. The planet is estimated to be several times more massive than Jupiter, and to have an orbital radius greater than 40 AU. In September 2008, an object was imaged at a separation of 330 AU from the star 1RXS J160929.1−210524, but it was not until 2010, that it was confirmed to be a companion planet to the star and not just a chance alignment. The first multiplanet system, announced on 13 November 2008, was imaged in 2007, using telescopes at both the Keck Observatory and Gemini Observatory. Three planets were directly observed orbiting HR 8799, whose masses are approximately ten, ten, and seven times that of Jupiter. On the same day, 13 November 2008, it was announced that the Hubble Space Telescope directly observed an exoplanet orbiting Fomalhaut, with a mass no more than . Both systems are surrounded by disks not unlike the Kuiper belt. In 2009, it was announced that analysis of images dating back to 2003, revealed a planet orbiting Beta Pictoris. In 2012, it was announced that a "Super-Jupiter" planet with a mass about orbiting Kappa Andromedae was directly imaged using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. It orbits its parent star at a distance of about 55 AU, or nearly twice the distance of Neptune from the sun. An additional system, GJ 758, was imaged in November 2009, by a team using the HiCIAO instrument of the Subaru Telescope, but it was a