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Jupiter-Sized Rogue Planet Detected Entering Our Solar System
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Posted on 08/29/2025 5:39:44 AM PDT by TigerClaws

Could a vagabond giant from the outermost regions of interstellar space be poised on the cusp of sweeping by our cosmic doorstep? Astronomers say yes and they have the data to support it. Using the Pan-STARRS survey telescope on Hawaii and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, researchers have found a giant rogue planet, possibly as massive as Jupiter, speeding toward the solar system. It is a transient discovery made possible by the combination of wide-sky monitoring and the capability of high-resolution spectroscopy.

Pan-STARRS first notified astronomers to the object with weak, creeping light signals near quiet stars. The adaptive optics and spectrographs of the VLT then allowed researchers to unravel its light into a spectrum, which indicated absorption lines typical of a gas giant atmosphere. Spectroscopy the same technique researchers apply to study exoplanets can identify molecular constituents such as methane, ammonia, and water vapor and give clues to how the planet formed. As Núria Miret-Roig, who spearheaded similar rogue planet surveys, has described it, These measurements allow us to securely identify the faintest objects in this region, the rogue planets.

Early orbital simulations suggest that the body is not gravitationally bound to any star and is traveling through the solar system for the first time. Its mass and velocity suggest it will have slight gravitational pulls on other planets or minor bodies. Scientists are conducting three-body simulations in order to establish possible perturbations, a process that involves the restricted three-body problem and considers chaotic orbital resonances. Whereas current models indicate minimal disruption, even a Jupiter-mass object passing by tens of astronomical units can deflect cometary orbits in the Oort Cloud.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; browndwarf; catastrophism; cha110913773444; oortcloud; panstarrs; rogueplanet; rogueplanets; science; spitzertelescope; xplanets

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1 posted on 08/29/2025 5:39:44 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Zecharia Sitchin.


2 posted on 08/29/2025 5:43:00 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Trannies! The Official Haters of the U.S. A.)
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To: TigerClaws; MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; rktman; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay; telescope115; ...

Nibiru returns.....................


3 posted on 08/29/2025 5:44:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm


4 posted on 08/29/2025 5:45:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: TigerClaws

Wormwood?


5 posted on 08/29/2025 5:45:45 AM PDT by reed13k
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To: TigerClaws

Are we sure it’s not the Death Star?


6 posted on 08/29/2025 5:46:20 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: TigerClaws

Zecharia Sitchin.


7 posted on 08/29/2025 5:46:29 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Trannies! The Official Haters of the U.S. A.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It’s Nibiru! The Anunnaki are returning and they want our gold again!


8 posted on 08/29/2025 5:48:39 AM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: TigerClaws

The link does not work.


9 posted on 08/29/2025 5:50:31 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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10 posted on 08/29/2025 5:59:39 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: reed13k

Dyson sphere?


11 posted on 08/29/2025 6:00:48 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: TigerClaws

Wormwood ?

Could be...

( Hope not )

Death Star filled with space “ brothers “ come to deceive mankind and make us think they created us ,

and YHWH is real but actually the bad guy,

and that they took all those bad Christians away, not their rapture, so we could evolve and ascend?

Maybe...

Time will tell.

Luke 21:28

Keep looking up at any rate.


12 posted on 08/29/2025 6:03:25 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: TigerClaws
From the article --- " 'Find the thing, point telescopes at it, argue about it. It’s going to be fun .”

Lots of wiggle words in the article, as scientists do guesswork and run simulations and "fun" for some.

13 posted on 08/29/2025 6:03:56 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: TigerClaws

More fear porn. It sells.


14 posted on 08/29/2025 6:06:20 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: ConservativeMind

This link works for me:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/jupiter-sized-rogue-planet-detected-entering-our-solar-system/ar-AA1LjNRF

Perhaps you have a ‘liberal disinformation website’ blocker?


15 posted on 08/29/2025 6:08:33 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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“… poised on the cusp of sweeping by our cosmic doorstep?”

Good grief. What drama.

I hope it doesn’t destroy the solar system before the midterms.

EC


16 posted on 08/29/2025 6:10:08 AM PDT by Ex-Con777 (Leftists quote the Constitution like an atheist quotes the Bible)
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To: TigerClaws

There is no verified detection of a Jupiter-sized rogue planet entering our solar system. The claim appears to be a mix of misunderstood studies and speculative fiction.

The real interstellar visitor, 31/ATLAS, is intriguing but not planet-sized.


17 posted on 08/29/2025 6:12:23 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: fwdude

All too well.


18 posted on 08/29/2025 6:13:49 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: TigerClaws

Planet X


19 posted on 08/29/2025 6:13:53 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: reed13k

Good question.


20 posted on 08/29/2025 6:14:12 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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