[NorthMountain]

What the? If the thing is only 20 light years away, why is there no photo?

Because a photograph of it would show the point-spread function of the telescope/detector used to photograph it. That, along with spectra, would be useful to scientists but not to mass media.

[Texas Eagle]

Because a photograph of it would show the point-spread function of the telescope/detector used to photograph it.

You made that up.