• So lonely: Planet without a star discovered
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[quote]he planetary world keeps getting stranger. Scientists have found free-floating planets — drifting alone, away from stars — before. But the “newborn” PSO J318.5-22 (only 12 million years old) shows properties similar to other young planets around young stars, even though there is no star nearby the planet. “We have never before seen an object free-floating in space that that looks like this. It has all the characteristics of young planets found around other stars, but it is drifting out there all alone,” stated team leader Michael Liu, who is with the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. “I had often wondered if such solitary objects exist, and now we know they do.” The planet is about 80 light-years from Earth, which is quite close, and is part of a star group named after Beta Pictoris that also came together about 12 million years ago. There is a planet in orbit around Beta Pictoris itself, but PSO J318.5-22 has a lower mass and likely had a different formation scenario, the researchers said. [img]http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.com/files/styles/image_full/public/planet-580x434.jpg?itok=wfMArt_a[/img][/quote] [url]http://www.popsci.com/article/science/planet-without-star-found?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=2&con=planet-without-a-star-found[/url]
thats really fucking eerie if you think about it
How did it form with no star? That is so cool.
That's kinda sad. We should send out a space ship to go give it a hug. [QUOTE=Ricool06;42490452]How did it form with no star? That is so cool.[/QUOTE] Probably the same way everything else in space forms: gravity. Or maybe it was flung out of its system? [del]Or maybe that's no planet![/del]
Imagine being able to stand on that planet without dying, you'd be able to look up (granted if the atmosphere wasn't too thick) and see EVERYTHING [QUOTE=Ricool06;42490452]How did it form with no star? That is so cool.[/QUOTE]Probably formed around it's parent star but was dislodged from its system somehow
[QUOTE=Ricool06;42490452]How did it form with no star? That is so cool.[/QUOTE] Maybe it got ejected or summat. Not sure though, I'm obviously not an astrophysicist.
An Oregon couple voiced a desire to adopt the planet, and we've been told that the paperwork has already been filed.
Death Star's orphan son.
[video=youtube;SaNt9-QkiHI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaNt9-QkiHI[/video]
That planet looks fucking awesome. I so wanna go there. Safely, of course.
6 times the mass of Jupiter? This seems like a would be star that didn't get enough juice.
that's no moon etc
[QUOTE=G71tc4;42490674]that's no moon etc[/QUOTE] [img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/excessive_quotation.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Tobba;42490728][img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/excessive_quotation.png[/img][/QUOTE] Relevant to everything.
Is it the closest object outside of the solar system? If so, build an outpost on it to act as a waypoint between systems.
[QUOTE=Penultimate;42490587]That planet looks fucking awesome. I so wanna go there. Safely, of course.[/QUOTE] The image is just an artist's impression.
[QUOTE=Penultimate;42490587]That planet looks fucking awesome. I so wanna go there. Safely, of course.[/QUOTE] We can only really see it as an nondescript smudge of light (if that) and a bunch of tables and graphs, as with almost everything outside our solar system.
that's no planet. It's a SPACESHIP!
Reminds me of this science fiction short story: [url]http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0743498747/0743498747___6.htm[/url] (It's really, really good. Read it. NOW!)
There's also this to keep in mind: [QUOTE=theevilldeadII;42407949][mEDIa]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5IWWiuA7dI[/mEDIa][/QUOTE]
Without a star, the only light reaching the planet would be the ambient space light. This isn't ordinary everyday darkness. This is.... [B]advanced[I]darkness[/I][/B].
[url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/[/url]
[QUOTE=Last or First;42490476]That's kinda sad. We should send out a space ship to go give it a hug. Probably the same way everything else in space forms: gravity. Or maybe it was flung out of its system? [del]Or maybe that's no planet![/del][/QUOTE] Flung out of the system? That's a little frightening.
There are actually a lot of these rogue planets. There was an article on them in a national geographic magazine.
[QUOTE=James xX;42491113][url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/[/url][/QUOTE] ooh someone from my country made that kidding aside, that planet is a emo
Rouge planets have been known for a bit
I find the concept of being on any other planet eerie and disturbing. Or even just the concept of a massive lump of materials/gas floating along in a vast, lifeless galaxy. I can't even comprehend what it would be like to be the one of the first people on Mars and to grasp the distance between yourself and the Earth.
really it's just an 'unborn' star that didn't gather enough mass to start nuclear fusion. I'm almost certain that there are as many of these rogue planets as their are stars in the galaxy, if not more
It's okay rouge planet, once you get passed by Voyager, they'll have declared you part of the solar system.
That's no moon!
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