Astronomers try to solve puzzle around free-floating Jupiter-sized planets : The Tribune India tribuneindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tribuneindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Free-floating Jupiter-sized "planets" found in space and orbiting only each other have baffled astronomers, forcing them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.
Mystery in the Orion Nebula: Pairs of rogue planets? earthsky.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from earthsky.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A November story from Quanta Magazine that was published in Wired today considered the nascent attempts to explain so-called Jupiter Mass Binary Objects (JUMBOs) gas giant pairs, free-floating and orbiting only each other littering the Orion nebula. According to the article, they’re too light to have formed alone and are unexpectedly numerous. One possibility is planets with “tightly-spaced orbits” being dragged out of their solar system by a passing star.