{"id":113717,"date":"2020-10-01T23:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T06:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/a-rogue-earth-mass-planet-has-been-discovered-freely-floating-in-the-milky-way-without-a-star"},"modified":"2020-10-01T23:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T06:22:33","slug":"a-rogue-earth-mass-planet-has-been-discovered-freely-floating-in-the-milky-way-without-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/a-rogue-earth-mass-planet-has-been-discovered-freely-floating-in-the-milky-way-without-a-star","title":{"rendered":"A Rogue Earth-Mass Planet Has Been Discovered Freely Floating in the Milky Way Without a Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-rogue-earth-mass-planet-has-been-discovered-freely-floating-in-the-milky-way-without-a-star.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There may be more rogue planets drifting through space in the Milky Way than there are actual stars. This is how they found one of them.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If a solar system is a family, then some planets leave home early. Whether they want to or not. Once they\u2019ve left the gravitational embrace of their family, they\u2019re pretty much destined to drift through interstellar space forever, unbound to any star.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers like to call these drifters \u201crogue planets,\u201d and they\u2019re getting better at finding them. A team of astronomers have found one of these drifting rogues that\u2019s about the same mass as Mars or Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Finding something in deep space that emits no light of its own is extremely challenging. But two organizations are doing just that. They\u2019re the <a href=\"http:\/\/ogle.astrouw.edu.pl\/main\/main.html\">OGLE<\/a> (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) collaboration and the <a href=\"https:\/\/kmtnet.kasi.re.kr\/~ulens\/\">KMTN<\/a> (Korean Microlensing Telescope Network) collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be more rogue planets drifting through space in the Milky Way than there are actual stars. This is how they found one of them. If a solar system is a family, then some planets leave home early. Whether they want to or not. Once they\u2019ve left the gravitational embrace of their family, they\u2019re [\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-113717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113717","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=113717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}