Holy cow, how did I miss this?

by Diane

I guess I was still having the one-day collapse that followed getting back from those four days away. Never mind.

“The historic first image of a planet circling another star may have been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The ‘planet’, 5-10 times the mass of Jupiter, is orbiting a small white dwarf star about 100 light-years away.

“Astronomers are being cautious, saying they require more data to be sure it really is a planet and not a background object caught in the same field of view.”

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