‘Lonely’ Rogue Planet Discovered Wandering the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered a free-floating planet, not associated with any parent star wandering our galaxy.
Tag: rogue planet
Rogue Planets Could Outnumber Stars in the Milky Way
We might have to revise the commonly accepted image of planets orbiting a parent star.
Lonely planet is actually part of the largest planetary system in the Milky Way
Astronomers find the parent of an orphan planet. The finding makes the solar system the biggest in the galaxy.
70,000 Years Ago, a Rogue Star Passed Through Our Solar System
Too close for comfort - a team of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa concluded that a ...
A strange, lonely planet found without a star
An international discovered a young, exotic, rogue planet - PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has ...
“Eye of Sauron” star hosts rogue planet
Back in 2008, Hubble released a stunning image of a very bright star called Fomalhaut which spanned a huge disk of ...
Closest rogue planet discovered is just 100 light-years away
Like in a scene from a Sci-fi novel, about 100 light years away, somewhere in the constellation Doradus, a planet ...
Stars capture and swap with one another nomad planets
Some time ago we told you about one of the most fascinating facts this blog has ever published, namely how ...
Nomad planets may litter Milky Way
According to a recent study published by researchers from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), our galaxy ...
