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A lone "rogue" planet finally gets its weight and distance nailed down
Astronomers have finally pinned down both the mass and distance of a solitary “rogue” planet, a world that drifts through ...
Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy without a parent star, turning a once purely theoretical class of worlds into a ...
An international research team has discovered a new planet so young that it has yet to emerge from the womb of matter where it is forming. This is the youngest protoplanet discovered to date. It’s ...
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For First Time, The Mass And Distance Of A Solitary “Rogue” Planet Has Been Measured
The team has estimated that the planet is about 22 percent the mass of Jupiter, so roughly a Saturn-sized world. It is located about 3,000 parsecs ( 9,785 light-years) from the center of the Milky Way ...
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