Maybe It’s a Star: “A tiny star with a giant planet is further muddling astronomers’ notion of what a planet is. The planet is one of perhaps only two or three planets around other stars to be photographed directly, but it may be more like a star than a planet.

The tiny star, known as Oph1622, is so small that it never lighted up, a failed star known as a brown dwarf. Even among brown dwarfs, it is small, with a mass equal to 14 Jupiters, or about one-seventy-fifth that of the Sun” (New York Times )