Scientists Discovered an Entire Group of Free-Floating Planets a Lot Like Earth
And we re about to find a lot more. An artist s impression of a free-floating planet. Interpott.nrw / Wikimedia
Not every Earth-like planet gets to have a nice, warm sun.
A team of scientists just found a mysterious group of free-floating planets that might not have any host stars whatsoever, and some of them might have masses not very different than Earth s, according to a recent stud published in the
Twenty-seven free-floating planets found via microlensing
Data gathered in 2016 during the K2 mission phase of NASA s Kepler Space Telescope was analyzed in the study by Iain McDonald of the University of Manchester in the U.K., which is now located at the Open University. Throughout the two-month Kepler mission, the telescope monitored a crowded population of millions of stars close to the center of our Milky Way every 30 minutes, to identify gravitational microlensing events, which point to
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NASA telescope spots mysterious free-floating planets
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