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Warped Starlight Reveals Smallest Rogue Planet Known to Science – Gizmodo

Free-floating planets are not bound to any star, having been dumped from their original home systems. New research describes the smallest rogue planet discovered…

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Free-floating planets are not bound to any star, having been dumped from their original home systems. New research describes the smallest rogue planet discovered to date, in an astronomical achievement that took an Einstein-inspired technique to new extremes.
Rogue planets, also known as free-floating planets, arent gravitationally tethered to any star, which means theyre literally careening through interstellar space. That these things exist is kind of creepy, but rogue planets could be exceptionally…

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