Free-Floating Planets May be More Common Than Stars

Free-Floating Planets May be More Common Than Stars
May 17, 2001
CreditNASA/JPL
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This artist's conception illustrates a Jupiter-like planet alone in the dark of space, floating freely without a parent star. Astronomers recently uncovered evidence for 10 such lone worlds, thought to have been "booted," or ejected, from developing solar systems.