esahubble_opo0013a April 6th, 2000
Credit: Susan Terebey (Extrasolar Research Corp.), and NASA/ESA
Follow-up observations of an unusual object initially suspected to be the first directly detected planet outside our solar system have shown that the object is too hot to be a planet. Astronomers now believe it is more likely that the strange object is a background star whose light has been dimmed and reddened by interstellar dust, giving the illusion that it is in the vicinity of the double star system in which it was initially believed to have been a planet.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0013a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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