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May 19, 2011 02:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/4k5RWNioqSA/Homeless-Planets-May-Be-Common-In-Our-Galaxy
'Homeless' Planets May Be Common In Our Galaxy
sciencehabit writes "Our galaxy could be teeming with 'homeless' planets, wandering the cosmos far from the solar systems of their birth, astronomers have found. In a paper published online today in Nature, the researchers list 10 objects in our galaxy that are very likely to be free-floating planets. What's more, they claim that in our galaxy, free-floaters are probably so populous that they outnumber stars."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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