Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy without a parent star, turning a once purely theoretical class of worlds into a ...
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For first time, the mass and distance of a solitary “rogue” planet has been measured
The galaxy is expected to be home to billions of free-floating, or "rogue", planets that have no stellar companion. These worlds have been kicked out of the system where they formed, and they travel ...
While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets seem to have been knocked out of their orbits, floating through space free ...
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