Eight times the mass of Jupiter = a brown dwarf?
What blows me away is its distance. Never expected our first photo of a planet orbiting another star would be of one so far away! Thought it would be of one of our "next door" neighbors.
To your knowledge, is this the first photo that resolves an alien star's disk? If so, I had no idea they could do that either! (Perhaps a little skepticism is in order until this claim is confirmed?)