"We have never before seen an object free-floating in space that that looks like this. It has all the characteristics of young planets found around other stars, but it is drifting out there all alone."
"Planets found by direct imaging are incredibly hard to study, since they are right next to their much brighter host stars. PSO J318.5-22 is not orbiting a star so it will be much easier for us to study. It is going to provide a wonderful view into the inner workings of gas-giant planets like Jupiter shortly after their birth."
To: zeestephen
Hmmm...thrown out of its solar system, or a death star!!
2 posted on
10/10/2013 12:52:14 AM PDT by
SatinDoll
(NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
To: zeestephen
3 posted on
10/10/2013 1:09:24 AM PDT by
Red Steel
To: zeestephen
4 posted on
10/10/2013 1:45:20 AM PDT by
daku
To: zeestephen
a wanderer..*cue music*
"Well..I'm a type of guy
who likes wanderer 'round".. by Dion.
8 posted on
10/10/2013 2:40:06 AM PDT by
skinkinthegrass
(who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
To: zeestephen
9 posted on
10/10/2013 2:44:41 AM PDT by
fivecatsandadog
(Why does my phone go all wonky every time I say something bad about Obama?)
To: zeestephen
The planet formed a mere 12 million years ago How do they know?
11 posted on
10/10/2013 3:09:52 AM PDT by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: zeestephen
Read about rouge planets, from theory to fact.
13 posted on
10/10/2013 3:15:58 AM PDT by
Farnsworth
("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
To: zeestephen
6x Jupiter?
Sounds more like a failed brown dwarf not a planet.
15 posted on
10/10/2013 3:22:18 AM PDT by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: zeestephen
How neat! Could it be it’s sun turned nova and this is all that would be left? I would assume Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will survive after our sun’s death.
16 posted on
10/10/2013 3:28:25 AM PDT by
Gefn
(More Cowbell)
To: zeestephen
Wow. They can tell that a planet which is 80 light years away is 12 million years old just by looking at it. Sounds like something someone would say who makes a living sucking up money from taxpayers.
19 posted on
10/10/2013 3:57:33 AM PDT by
freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
To: zeestephen
A Strange Lonely Planet Found Without A Star
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Finally a place where Hollywood ‘stars’ are REALLY needed.
To: zeestephen
My guess is that, like Jupiter, it would have been destined to be a star but had insufficient mass to self ignite.
To: zeestephen
These discoveries make stories like “When Worlds Collide” seem more reasonable.
But these planets could be explained by stellar formation phenomena - lots of gas giants form that never became stars in the stellar nurseries. So there could be trillions of them in the universe.
36 posted on
10/10/2013 7:21:18 AM PDT by
tbw2
To: zeestephen; SunkenCiv
(((PING)))
38 posted on
10/10/2013 12:44:17 PM PDT by
oxcart
(Journalism [sic])
To: zeestephen
Most likely a potential star that never accumulated enough matter and density to ignite.....i’m guessing.
43 posted on
10/12/2013 2:47:21 PM PDT by
mowowie
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