Lost in Space: Rogue Planet Spotted? Orphaned world may help to explain how planets and stars form WWW.GOODNEWS.WS from dwarfs Watch Video
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Description: http://goodnews.ws/nnArtist's impression of the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9: This video shows an the first part of the sequence the planet appears as a dark disc in visible light, silhouetted against the star clouds of the Milky Way. This is the closest such object to the Solar System and the most exciting candidate free-floating planet found so far. It does not orbit a star and hence does not shine by reflected light; the faint glow it emits can only be detected in infrared
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