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More than 100 billion ‘rogue planets’ could be drifting through Milky Way unattached to a star – Brinkwire
THERE may be more than 100 billion “rogue planets” drifting through the Milky Way unattached to a star, new research has suggested.
The free-floating planets travel aimlessly through space, because they aren’t connected to any sun or star.
A new NASA mission is attempting to count how many rogue planets there are – with predictions that they will outnumber the stars in the galaxy.
Co-author Professor Scott Gaudi, an astronomer at Ohio State University, said: “The universe could be teeming wi…
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