An artist's depiction of the newly described object. Credit: Chuck Carter; NRAO/AUI/NSF/Caltech
An artist's depiction of the newly described object. Credit: Chuck Carter; NRAO/AUI/NSF/Caltech
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I read “Incredible Aurora’s” and thought “hey, This I Gotta See”...
How do any of the attributes described here make this a ‘rogue’ planet?
It’s interesting, it’s unusual, but nothing I see here says it’s anything other than polite and well behaved for such a large planet.
There are more ways for a planet to not be suitable for life than we can possibly imagine.
Arthur Clarke, in one of his novels, imagined a planet baked at extremely high temperatures and powerful blasts of high-energy radiation by a huge, nearby sun, on which strange creatures existed as patterns etched in stone; they had intelligence, but required ten of our years to complete a single thought.
“Bizarre “, “Rogue”, “Incredible” and “Puzzles Scientists” all in the same headline.
Sensationalism, much?
Ah, the puppeteer’s home world!
Seriously, this is how I foresee interstellar transport.
If the rogue planet is not orbiting a star, there will not be sufficient stellar wind to generate auroras. The radio telescopes are detecting some other phenomena on the planet.
It’s Krypton.
Is this Brown Dawarf a galactic scrap metal collector? Cruising the Universe, collecting stray iron asteroids and space junk?
This depiction indicates a gas giant. I guess the article didn’t state whether it was or wasn’t.
The exciting thing about locating planets with magnetic fields is that you can potentially live there and not get fried by radiation. The problem with this planet in particular is that you would weigh an awful lot and your widdle wegs would go SNAP!