{"id":167879,"date":"2023-07-20T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/trillions-of-rogue-planets-may-be-wandering-alone-in-our-galaxy"},"modified":"2023-07-20T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T13:23:37","slug":"trillions-of-rogue-planets-may-be-wandering-alone-in-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/trillions-of-rogue-planets-may-be-wandering-alone-in-our-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Trillions of rogue planets may be wandering alone in our galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trillions-of-rogue-planets-may-be-wandering-alone-in-our-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an astonishing revelation, researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a> and Japan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osaka-u.ac.jp\/en\">Osaka University<\/a> have uncovered data suggesting the rogue planets \u2013 those solitary wanderers unhinged from any star \u2013 significantly outnumber the approximately hundred billion planets which orbit stars.<\/p>\n<p>The findings indicate that NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, slated for launch by May 2027, could discover as many as 400 rogue planets similar in mass to Earth. A likely candidate for this category has already been singled out from the data.<\/p>\n<p>David Bennett is a senior research scientist at NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/goddard\">Goddard Space Flight Center<\/a> and co-author of two papers detailing these findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an astonishing revelation, researchers from NASA and Japan\u2019s Osaka University have uncovered data suggesting the rogue planets \u2013 those solitary wanderers unhinged from any star \u2013 significantly outnumber the approximately hundred billion planets which orbit stars. The findings indicate that NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, slated for launch by May 2027, could discover [\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-167879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167879","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=167879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}