Thursday, October 10, 2013

Lonely, young planet drifting in space without a star

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/10/tech/space-new-planet/index.html

October 10, 2013 - CNN
The solitary life of this newly discovered planet, with the catchy name PSO J318.5-22, has astronomers excited.
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Subsequent infrared observations using other telescopes in Hawaii showed it was no brown dwarf, but rather a young, low-mass planet.
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