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First Directly Imaged Planet Confirmed Around Sun-like Star, Gemini Observatory
"A planet only about eight times the mass of Jupiter has been confirmed orbiting a Sun-like star at over 300 times farther from the star than the Earth is from our Sun. The newly confirmed planet is the least massive planet known to orbit at such a great distance from its host star. The discovery utilized high-resolution adaptive optics technology at the Gemini Observatory to take direct images and spectra of the planet."
This is not the first directly imaged planet. It's the third (previous ones were one around a brown dwarf and one seen by HST in the dust disk around Formalhaut). It's the first one imaged with a ground-based telescope, though.
Doing it from the ground, and getting spectra of the planet, are significant accomplishments.