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Rogue planets

Credit: COSMIC-DANCE Team/CFHT/Coelum/Gaia/DPAC

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.

Read more in the Subaru and CFHT press releases.

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