Sunday, September 23, 2007

The 10 most intriguing extrasolar planets,Free floaters-Photo


There are known exoplanets that have one, two and even three suns. But one bizarre class of planet-sized objects has no suns at all, and instead floats untethered through space. Called planemos, the objects are similar to, but smaller than, brown dwarfs, failed stars too small to achieve stellar ignition.

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