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Artist drawing of a solitary brown dwarf in space, glowing feebly in visible light. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Dozens of rogue planets found in a nearby cosmic nursery

Starless planets wander the galaxy in the dark.
By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago

Rogue planets are wandering everywhere, and some might even be like ours

By Elizabeth Rayne | 
1 year ago
Artist drawing of a solitary brown dwarf in space, glowing feebly in visible light. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Dark matter might heat exoplanets enough to make them glow

By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago
Artwork depicting a rogue planet, ejected from its solar system, wandering the galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC)

How our galaxy will kill our solar system in a trillion years, planet by planet

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
Artwork depicting a solitary brown dwarf with an aurora. Credit: Chuck Carter, Caltech, NRAO/AUI/NSF

An aurora glows over a (possible) rogue planet

By Phil Plait | 
4 years ago
The quasar RX J1131-1231 appears as a series of bright dots on a ring around the fuzzy elliptical galaxy in the center due to gravitational lensing. This is a Hubble image (red, green, and blue) combined with Chandra which sees X-rays (displayed as pink).

Astronomers may have found rogue planets… in another galaxy

By Phil Plait | 
5 years ago
Artist’s conception of the free-floating planet PSO J318. Credit: MPIA/V. Ch. Quetz

Putting the spin on a rogue planet

By Phil Plait | 
5 years ago
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CFBDSIR 2149-0403: A mystery lurks 1800 trillion kilometers from Earth

By Phil Plait | 
5 years ago

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