Oodles of rougue planets roaming around...
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Oodles of rougue planets roaming around...
The National Science Foundation's NOIRLab observatories discovers 70-170 potential new free-floating planets wandering through space in the Upper Scorpius OB stellar association region. Interstellar space seems to be a wild west of roaming hazards.
Article
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-largest-f ... milky.html
Paper
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... ssociation
Article
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-largest-f ... milky.html
Paper
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... ssociation
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U.S.A.F. Veteran - Visual Amateur Astronomer since 1966 - Fully Retired since 2019
8" f/5 Newt - Lunt 152 f/7.9 - TSA 102 f/8 - Vixen 81S f/7.7 - P.S.T. - Pentax 65ED II - Nikon 12x50 AE
Pentax XWs - Baader Morpheus - Takahashi LEs - Edmund RKEs - BST Starguiders - 6ZAO-II/5XO/4Abbe
PM and Email communications always welcomed
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