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Originally Posted by NEOWatcher
A no-fat donut?
Anyway, It would be nice to have a bit more details. It sounds like speculation from a single picture. They don't say if there are any depth clues, or other reasons to help identify it.
I'm not sure if it's the article, or the speculation. Either way, it wouldn't hurt to take a closer look.
It looks rather "nebulus" to me.
Actually; it looks more like a space frog.
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It's been
discussed in Universe Today, and a great deal of detail may be seen
here. Not quite a single picture - multifilter images from four telescopes, spectra from two, satellite data in the UV and X-ray...Of course, one wouldn't realize any of this by the time a news story makes it through most outlets, and a healthy degree of skepticism is always wise when assessing press-release science. The fact that it was mentioned in a couple of reports already brings up an interesting issue of the best way to do public announcements in a project which is by its nature public and open.