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Astronomers “Weigh” a Rogue Planet and Pin Down Mass and Distance for a Starless World
The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...
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For 1st time, astronomers measure mass and distance of a rogue planet
Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...
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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 ...
Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.
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Starless planets are real as astronomers just found one 10,000 light-years away
Their analysis showed that the planet lies about 3,000 parsecs, or just under 10,000 light-years, from Earth. Its mass is ...
Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...
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While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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