A team of astronomers discovered at least 70 rogue planets in the Milky Way, marking the largest group of rogue planets ever found. These free floaters roam the universe on their own without being bound to a host star. inverse.com/science/larges…
NASA launched its Kepler space telescope in 2009 to find Earth-like planets orbiting different stars. The telescope spotted a free-floating planetary-mass object around 100 light-years away from Earth. inverse.com/science/larges…
Planet CFBDSIR2149 was the first rogue planet discovery, and its proximity helped astronomers learn more about these planetary anomalies. Some scientists believe these planets could even host life, despite all odds. inverse.com/science/larges…
“We did not know how many to expect and are excited to have found so many,” Núria Miret-Roig (@nmiretroig), an astronomer at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France and the University of Vienna, Austria, and lead author of the new study. inverse.com/science/larges…
The recent discovery suggests there could be more of these planets roaming the galaxy. However, scientists are still not sure of their origin. Without a star to orbit, these planets go about their business independently. inverse.com/science/larges…
The team hopes that by studying the large group of rogue planets, they will be able to identify their origins and how they formed and evolved. They have their hopes set on @ESO's upcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). inverse.com/science/larges…
Learn all about the new discovery and rogue planets in the article below: inverse.com/science/larges…
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