Recently Discovered Habitable World May Not Exist (opens in new tab)

This is basically irrelevant to the linked post, but I have to ask: Was I the only one who felt crushed, betrayed and crestfallen upon making the terrible realization that space doesn't actually look like all of the awesome "photos" floating around? Like the Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Nebula). Sure, that's technically what it "looks like," but the colors are all determined by the artistic license of whoever processed the X-ray information and composite photographs of light in the nonvisible spectrum.

Drat. :-(

Well darn. I looked at the data they'd published saying they'd found the planet, and while it seemed tenuous to me, I should've gone on record somewhere saying so. On the other hand, I'm not a planetary astronomer, so my I'm not really qualified to tell what is strong data or not, so I just trusted the reviewers.

The dangers of coming out with these findings before they have been properly verified. With the size of the deviations in star velocity they are trying to detect right on the edge of our current capability.

Well, that's confusing.

The comments on that site are even more confusing.

Maybe it shifted behind the star when they looked...?

The title is a bit overdramatic given the actual situation.

One team detected has produced evidence of a particular planet, another team has attempted to corroborate that evidence and could not, though their instruments are not sensitive enough to rule out said planet. And thus we await more data.

This is a tempest in a teapot.

Shhh! Nasa was all excited.