That's right folks, this is not the light at the end of the tunnel, it's a star and orbiting planet some 500 light years away.

While scientists have found numerous planets by detecting gravitational "wobble" in stars, "this is the first time we have directly seen a planetary mass object in a likely orbit around a star like our Sun," said the lead author of a paper about the discovery, David LafreniÃ¨re.

The planet is 3,106 trillion miles away and approximately 8x the size of Jupiter, but 11x further from its sun than Neptune is from ours. Interesting, very interesting. Being a town-renowned astronomer myself, I'll go ahead and spit some info about the planet that those pseudo-scientists that made the discovery failed to mention. Let's see here....round, yellowish-orange, significantly smaller than 1".

BAM! You just got Saganed!

Historic first look at an alien world, 3106 trillion miles away [dvice]