Rogue Planets That Float in Space Without Orbiting a Sun Could Outnumber the Stars

Scitechdaily.com ^ | August 21, 2020 | By Ohio State University

[RedMonqey]

Rogue Planets = Death Stars

[gymbeau]

In development. Bet it sucks.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455856/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

[BenLurkin]

nuts!

[TangoLimaSierra]

Those rouges! Gotta watch them rouge planets. Sneaking around out there.

So, just the red ones, then?

[Viking2002]

I see it going one of two ways. Remember about 20 years ago with those competing asteroid movies? It'll either be a loud, effects-laden video for a rock soundtrack like Armageddon, or it'll be a ponderous, shoe-gazing snorefest like Deep Impact. I'm betting the latter. (Although Deep Impact did have one thing going for it: Téa Leoni dies at the end. She irritates me for some reason.)

[mowowie]

I have always wondered about rogue planets being out there...
thanks for this.

I wondered about there being dark gas giants out there with their own solar systems.
Gas giants that just didn’t quite have that oomph to turn into a shining star..

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf

[Red Badger]

Updated: 24 April 2017

[gymbeau]

You may be right. I don’t like remakes in general but there are exceptions, like Cronenberg’s The Fly and Spielberg’s War of the Worlds.

I guess we’ll find out.

[mowowie]

Ah....yes

Thanks for reminding me.

[Track9]

Maybe this is where all the ‘dark matter’ is hiding.

[Red Badger]

Yep, hiding in plain sight...............

[Viking2002]

Agreed. Some classics should be left to stand alone. An exception, for example, would be John Carpenter's '82 remake of The Thing with Kurt Russell. Carpenter actually stuck closer to the original story monster-wise than did the '51 Howard Hawks version, but most other aspects followed the same plotline, and side-by-side, they were eventual equals as far as how they're viewed today. Both had great ensemble casts. That remake-of-a-remake (a pseudo-prequel, actually) that was done about ten years ago was a stinkbomb.

[BiteYourSelf]

Like the book Jupiter theft.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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The Rogue Planets kw, chrono:

• Massive glowing 'rogue' planet spotted 'drifting' in space [2018]
• Bizarre Rogue 'Planet' with Incredible Auroras Puzzles Scientists [2018]
• Astronomers discover a free-range planet with incredible magnetism [2018]
• VLA detects possible extrasolar planetary-mass magnetic powerhouse [2018]
• MARS AND EARTH MAY NOT HAVE BEEN EARLY NEIGHBORS [2017]
• Earth and Venus are the Same Size, so Why Doesn't Venus Have a Magnetosphere?.... [2017]
• Rogue planet could bring end of days this weekend [2017]
• NASA says mysterious object hurtling towards Earth could be an asteroid or a comet [2017]
• The truth about exoplanets [2016]
• Did Jupiter Bumped The Giant Planet From Our Solar System? [2015]
• A close call of 0.8 light years [Nibiru?] [2015]
• Lost in Space: Half of All Stars Are Rogues Between Galaxies [2014]
• A strange lonely planet found without a star [Nibiru?] [2013]
• A Strange Lonely Planet Found Without A Star [2013]
• Rogue Planets Could Form On Their Own in Interstellar Space [2013]
• 'Orphan' alien planet with no parent is found near Earth [2012]
• CFBDSIR2149: An Orphaned Planet Without A Parent Star (VIDEO) [2012]
• New Planet Found in Our Solar System? [2012]
• Free-floating planets in the Milky Way outnumber stars by factors of thousands [2012]
• Some Stars Capture Rogue Planets [2012]
• How Many Unbound Planets in Milky Way? [2012]
• Scientists tell of 'runaway' planets [2012]
• Many Solar System Comets May Be Sun's Stolen Goods [2012]
• How Many Loose Planets in the Milky Way? [2012]
• When Stars Play Planetary Pinball [2012]
• Giant planet ejected from the solar system [2011]
• So Many Lonely Planets with No Star to Guide Them [2011]
• 'Free-floating' planets found with no star in sight [2011]
• Lonely Rogue Worlds Surprisingly Outnumber Planets with Suns [2011]
• Prepare for the Lord's Return! 5 Days in Heaven and Hell [2011]
• Mystery Planet: Is a Rogue Giant Orbiting Our Sun? [2011]
• First Alien Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered [2010]
• Neptune may have eaten a planet and stolen its moon [2010]
• Evening Lectures on Migrating Planets, Hazardous Asteroids Search [2009]
• The Curious Case of Missing Asteroids [2009]
• Were Mercury and Mars separated at birth? [2009]
• Are Jupiters Hard to Come By? [2008]
• Milky Way could hold hundreds of rogue black holes: study [2008]
• New data challenge Earth atmosphere theory [2007]
• Gas Giants Jump Into Planet Formation Early [2007]
• Catch Comet McNaught Now ! [2007]
• New insights into composition of giant planets [2006]
• Object Survives Being Swallowed by a Star [2006]
• Death Spiral: Why Theorists Can't Make Solar Systems [2006]
• Planets in all the wrong places [2006]
• Rogue Planet Find Makes Astronomers Ponder Theory [2005]
• Far-out worlds, just waiting to be found [2005]
• Spitzer Sees the Aftermath of a Planetary Collision [2005]
• Stellar encounters as the origin of distant Solar System objects in highly eccentric orbits [2004]

[depressed in 06]

How much mass is missing, now?

[aimhigh]

How much mass is missing, now?

Excellent question.

[tbw2]

There was a 1950s novel where a rogue pair of planets enters our solar system, smash Earth, and the survivors have to jump to the new world that happens to have domed cities left over by THAT world’s former survivors.

[tbw2]

That’s aside from ones ejected from multi-sun systems, whether they formed as binaries or one caught another.

[Verginius Rufus]

Rouge planets?

Next they will announce the discovery of mascara planets.