Articles for tag: Astronomy Facts, Planets without stars, Rogue planets, Space explained, Space Science

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Could Rogue Planets Be More Common Than Stars?

Suhail Ahmed

They slip through the dark like unregistered ships, drifting far from the glow of any sun. Astronomers call them rogue planets – worlds without a home star – and a provocative question has burst back into the spotlight: could there be more of these wanderers than stars in our galaxy. The mystery is sharpened by ...

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Did James Webb Spot Ghosts in Space? New Simulations Suggest These Mysterious ‘Rogue’ Objects May Not Exist

Jan Otte

Astronomers were confused when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first saw strange, free-floating pairs of Jupiter-sized objects in 2023. These strange cosmic objects, called “JuMBOs” (Jupiter-mass binary objects), seemed to go against the usual ideas about how planets form because they didn’t have a parent star and were drifting through space in tight gravitational ...