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		rpm4321 on Nov 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lonely ‘homeless’ planet found for the first time There's no way that's a photo, given that this is the best we can do of Ceres, a relatively close planetoid: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Ceres_opt... UPDATE: Here's its wikipedia page. 100 light years way from earth, so there is no way it's a photo. Also, wikipedia calls it a brown dwarf, which would explain the temperature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFBDSIR2149-0403

martey on Nov 14, 2012 [–]

The source of the image, an European Southern Observatory press release (mentioned in the HBL article, linked in the Wikipedia article) gives it a title of "Artist’s impression of the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9".

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1245/

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