{"id":2950,"date":"2011-05-16T08:20:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2012-06-08T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T06:39:00","slug":"free-floating-planets-may-be-more-common-than-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/?p=2950","title":{"rendered":"Free-Floating Planets May Be More Common Than Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2011\/18may_orphanplanets\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Science News<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/free-planet.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2951\" title=\"free-planet\" src=\"http:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/free-planet-440x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/free-planet-440x268.jpg 440w, https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/free-planet-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/free-planet.jpeg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nArtist's concept of a Jupiter-like planet alone in the dark of space, floating freely without a parent star.<br \/>\nImage credits: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets floating alone in the  dark of space. These lone worlds are probably outcasts from developing  planetary systems and, moreover, they could be twice as numerous as the  stars themselves. 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Image credits: NASA\/JPL-Caltech Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets floating alone in the dark of space. These lone worlds are probably outcasts from developing planetary systems and, moreover, they could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extrasolar-planets","category-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6069,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/6069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaae-astronomy.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}