The faint celestial object TMR-1C has had a checkered past — and now it has a checkered present.
IS IT OR ISN’T IT? Possibly the first photograph ever taken of a planet outside the solar system, this 1998 image shows a faint object 450 light-years from Earth (lower left, connected to a pair of stars by a luminous filament).
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