{"id":111885,"date":"2020-08-25T04:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T11:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/our-solar-system-may-be-unusual-rogue-planets-unveiled-with-nasas-roman-space-telescope"},"modified":"2020-08-25T04:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T11:23:43","slug":"our-solar-system-may-be-unusual-rogue-planets-unveiled-with-nasas-roman-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/our-solar-system-may-be-unusual-rogue-planets-unveiled-with-nasas-roman-space-telescope","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOur Solar System May Be Unusual\u201d: Rogue Planets Unveiled With NASA\u2019s Roman Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6vVetE5cEMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New simulations show that NASA \u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to reveal myriad rogue planets \u2013 freely floating bodies that drift through our galaxy untethered to a star. Studying these island worlds will help us understand more about how planetary systems form, evolve, and break apart.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers discovered planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets, in the 1990s. We quickly went from knowing of only our own planetary system to realizing that planets likely outnumber the hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy. Now, a team of scientists is finding ways to improve our understanding of planet demographics by searching for rogue worlds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our view of the universe has expanded, we\u2019ve realized that our solar system may be unusual,\u201d said Samson Johnson, a graduate student at Ohio State University in Columbus who led the research effort. \u201cRoman will help us learn more about how we fit in the cosmic scheme of things by studying rogue planets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New simulations show that NASA \u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to reveal myriad rogue planets \u2013 freely floating bodies that drift through our galaxy untethered to a star. Studying these island worlds will help us understand more about how planetary systems form, evolve, and break apart. Astronomers discovered planets beyond our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}