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Earth-size Planet Roams The Milky Way Without a Parent Star – Study – Al-Bawaba
A roughly Earth-sized, ‘free-floating’ planet roaming across the Milky Way — while gravitationally unattached to any star — has been discovered, a study
A roughly Earth-sized, ‘free-floating’ planet roaming across the Milky Way while gravitationally unattached to any star has been discovered, a study reported.
Astronomers from the US and Poland say that this so-called ‘rogue planet’ is the smallest ever identified to date.
While most known planets orbit a star, the team believe our galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets possibly outnumbering the number of stars in the Milky Way.
In 2011, the team found 10 such objects each about the size of Jupiter,…
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