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There's a vast population of rogue planets begging to be understood. This new study is giving astronomers a new way to do it.

I have seen the dark universe yawning, Where the black planets roll without aim; Where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or n | Space

Finding more and more exoplanets to study has, as we might have expected, widened our understanding of what a planet is.

By Joanna Barstow for The Conversation  We now know of almost 5,000 planets outside the Solar System. If you were to picture what it would be like on one of these distant worlds, or exoplanets, your mental image would probably include a parent star – or more than one, especially if you’re a Star Wars fan.

Milton Keynes (UK), January 16 We now know of almost 5,000 planets outside the Solar System. If you were to picture what it would be like on one of these distant worlds, or exoplanets, your mental im