News Astronomy Not a planet? By Ron Cowen June 13, 2006 at 11:42 am - More than 2 years ago Share this:Share Share via email (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on X (Opens in new window) X Print (Opens in new window) Print Two years ago, European astronomers found what they hailed as the first image of an extrasolar planet. New observations of the object add to evidence that it’s not a planet after all. The body, about eight times as heavy as Jupiter, resides next to a failed star, a brown dwarf dubbed 2M1207 (SN: 5/7/05, p. 291: Available to subscribers at Planetary Picture? Criteria for planethood cloud object’s identity).