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First-ever Snapshot Of A Planet Orbiting a Sun-Like Star

It is orbiting a sun-like star, but is nothing like Earth. It is eight times the size of Jupiter and is 330 times as far from its sun as we are from ours. "There’s a small chance that the object, small enough to be classified as a planet, merely resides in the same part of the sky as the star but is not gravitationally bound to it."

OK, maybe it's not exactly a potential source of ETs, but we're still making progress.