Friday, October 11, 2013

PSO J318.5-22: A Free Floating Planet Formed During Miocene Neogene


The planetary world keeps getting stranger. Scientists have found free-floating planets — drifting alone, away from stars — before. But the “newborn” PSO J318.5-22 (only 12 million years old) shows properties similar to other young planets around young stars, even though there is no star nearby the planet.

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