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Interstellar space is a graveyard of lost souls. Adrift far from any star, these planets float in the darkness like ghost ships in the night.
Our ideas of planets and stars are often fixated on the model presented by our solar system. In solar system, the Sun is at the centre while planets move around it in respective orbits. For many of us, this is the model for all planets and star systems in the universe. We tend to think that planets and stars are always found in nice families such as our solar system.
Free-floating planets are hard to spot, but astronomers have bagged a large haul by looking for candidates in a nearby star-forming region
These are planets with no star to illuminate them, according to astronomers from the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France.