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curiousuburb
Antimatter Man
 
Join Date: May 2004
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2011-05-19, 19:45

Then there are Rogue planets (without stars to orbit, apparently)

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Seems like every week astronomers find a new exoplanet, one that's the biggest or the smallest or the hottest or most habitable. However, this week astronomers are announcing a truly unique and new class of exoplanets: Jupiter sized planets that are in extremely large orbits or completely unbound from a host star altogether. And there appear to be a lot of them, as these planets seem to be more common than main sequence stars.

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Wonder if there are spindizzies in effect.
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