the first report of an exoplanet within this range was in 1998 for a planet orbiting around gliese 876 (15.3 light-years (ly) away), and the latest as of 2017 is one around ross 128 (11 ly). the closest exoplanet found is proxima centauri b, which was confirmed in 2016 to orbit proxima centauri, the closest star to our solar system (4.25 ly). hd 219134 (21.6 ly) has six exoplanets, the highest number discovered for any star within this range. a planet around fomalhaut (25 ly) was, in 2008, the first planet to be directly imaged.