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Pairs of rogue planets found wandering in the Orion Nebula

12 Oct 2023
Artist's impression of a rogue planet, which appears as a dark, banded object against a bright background of stars
Going rogue: Jupiter-mass planets have previously been found floating freely without a parent star, but not in such large numbers and never as binary pairs until the current study. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
More than 500 free-floating planetary-mass objects have been discovered wandering through the Orion

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Keith Cooper is a science writer based in the UK
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