{"id":124956,"date":"2021-07-14T14:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T21:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/kepler-seems-to-have-detected-a-bunch-of-rogue-planets-drifting-through-the-galaxy"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T21:23:01","slug":"kepler-seems-to-have-detected-a-bunch-of-rogue-planets-drifting-through-the-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/kepler-seems-to-have-detected-a-bunch-of-rogue-planets-drifting-through-the-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Kepler Seems to Have Detected a Bunch of Rogue Planets Drifting Through The Galaxy"},"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\/Wkf3AkVvPAM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When a star is born, the leftover dust and gas in the cloud from which it formed doesn\u2019t just sit there. It clumps together, forming other cosmic objects \u2014 asteroids and comets and meteors and, yes, exoplanets. We\u2019ve detected many of these exoplanets in orbit around alien stars in the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>But not all exoplanets stay put. Some get gravitationally kicked away from their parent star, to wander the galaxy, cold and alone. These are less easy to detect \u2014 but, after careful combing through data from NASA\u2019s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, astronomers think they\u2019ve found some.<\/p>\n<p>In data from a two-month observing period, they counted 27 signals hinting that a rogue exoplanet was moving past the telescope\u2019s eye. Most of them were known, detected by other instruments \u2014 but five were completely new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a star is born, the leftover dust and gas in the cloud from which it formed doesn\u2019t just sit there. It clumps together, forming other cosmic objects \u2014 asteroids and comets and meteors and, yes, exoplanets. We\u2019ve detected many of these exoplanets in orbit around alien stars in the Milky Way. But not all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124956","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=124956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}