Brown dwarf / giant free roaming planet. “How did it form?” That will be a fascinating question/ task.
Exo planet ping. Let the Niburu rumors begin!
“This object is right at the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf, or ‘failed star,’ and is giving us some surprises that can potentially help us understand magnetic processes on both stars and planets,” said Arizona State University’s Melodie Kao, who led the new study on SIMP, in a press release.
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Considering this new observation I think they need to change their definition of a brown dwarf. This isn’t a planet.
More information on this object:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMP_J013656.5%2B093347
More info on T class brown dwarfs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Class_T:_methane_dwarfs
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My guess is these are some crooked researchers figuring they’ll get more money if they call it a planet.
[[Astronomers discover a free-range planet with incredible magnetism]]
Oh swell- so it’s like 3 times more expensive than farm raised planets?
So THAT’S the Mother wheel Farakan was talking about.
5.56mm
“That’s no moon...”
Just??? That's quite a distance.
I don’t want to appear immodest, but...I know how it feels.
That, together with the laws of probability applied to our best understanding of the formation of star systems like our own, indicates the spaces between the stars must be populated with a wide variety of planets and 'failed stars' and their offspring. Not enough to present a bigger challenge to interstellar travel than the speed of light or the human lifespan, but still a bigger challenge than a grain of sand.
It follows that our rudimentary efforts at detection would encounter the largest, more dynamic examples.
"The galaxy is huge, with many things, but few so rare as..."