Unmoored, #RoguePlanets May Outnumber the #MilkyWay’s #Stars - #TheDailyGalaxy
"Imagine a #galaxy filled with roaming, dark, lifeless island worlds – rogue, free-floating #planets (#FFPs) without the life-giving light of an #alien host #star. Welcome to the Milky Way Galaxy. #Astronomers suggest that there may be more rogue planets than there are stars in the Milky Way."
Unmoored, Rogue Planets May Outnumber the Milky Way’s Stars
Maxwell Moe, astrophysicist, NASA Einstein Fellow, University of Arizona via Jackie Faherty and ESO Imagine a galaxy filled with roaming, dark, lifeless island worlds – rogue, free-floating planets (FFPs) without the life-giving light of an alien host star. Welcome to the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers suggest that there may be more rogue planets than […]