Rogue Planets by the Hundred
Infant Planet Discovered using Maunakea Telescopes
October 25, 2021
MKOs Combine to Observe the Ruins of an Ancient Star Cluster
January 7, 2022
Online viewers of the Subaru Telescope live stream were mesmerised by a cluster of more than a dozen meteors One Scouring through images from CFHT, Subaru and a number of other telescopes worldwide, an international team of astronomers has found the largest collection of free-floating “rogue” planets ever discovered, measuring their brightness, colour and miniscule motions across the sky. These planets are akin to Jupiter but none of them orbit a parent star, but we don’t know if they were formed in isolation, or started life in a solar system only to get “kicked out” through an unwelcome interaction with another planet.
