Webb Captures Jupiter's Faint Rings, Auroras & Hazes

NGC 2419, Wanderer

Opportunity turned 14 this week!! How would you feel after 14 years on Mars?

What is a Rogue Planet?

A rogue planet (also termed a free-floating (FFP), interstellar, nomad, orphan, sunless, starless, unbound or wandering planet) is an interstellar object of planetary-mass, therefore smaller than fusors (stars and brown dwarfs) and without a host planetary system. Such objects have been ejected from the planetary system in which they formed or have never been gravitationally bound to any star or brown dwarf. The Milky Way alone may have billions to trillions of rogue planets, a range the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will likely be able to narrow down.

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image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/P. Delorme/R. Saito/VVV Consortium

The planet Uranus. Taken on November 14th 2009 at 3:52 am. Using the 98 in Hooker telescope.

NASA scientists are closer than ever to finding life outside of Earth.

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Caldwell 103 by NASA Hubble

The first compact solar system discovered was the Kepler-11 system. It’s a compact solar system, which means it has planets very close to its sun. There are five planets by its sun, closer to its Sun than Mercury is to ours.

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