I logged with interest the report of the first reported discovery of an extra-solar planet. But: NASA: Suspected Extra-Solar Planet Probably a Star

‘It looked like a planet, the first directly detected outside our solar system, but

NASA researchers and the astronomer who discovered it now believe it is probably just a faraway star.”

It is just too hot to be a planet, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a statement

released late on Thursday.

The weird space object photographed three years ago by the Hubble Space Telescope is most likely a star

far in the background, with its light dimmed by interstellar dust, so that it looks like it is close to a

double-star system in which it was supposed to be a planet.’