{"id":220543,"date":"2025-08-20T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/rogue-planets-floating-in-space-appear-to-be-forming-their-own-moons"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:09:06","slug":"rogue-planets-floating-in-space-appear-to-be-forming-their-own-moons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/rogue-planets-floating-in-space-appear-to-be-forming-their-own-moons","title":{"rendered":"Rogue Planets Floating in Space Appear to Be Forming Their Own Moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rogue-planets-floating-in-space-appear-to-be-forming-their-own-moons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on a miniature scale.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis of new JWST observations on a number of rogue planets \u2013 each weighing between five and 10 Jupiters \u2013 has revealed the presence of disks with a significant proportion of crystalline silicate, just like those surrounding some baby stars right before their planets start to form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese studies show that objects with masses comparable to those of giant planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.st-andrews.ac.uk\/archive\/giant-free-floating-planets-may-form-their-own-planetary-systems\/\">says observational astronomer Aleks Scholz<\/a> of the University of St Andrews in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on a miniature scale. An analysis of new JWST observations on a number of rogue planets \u2013 each weighing between five and 10 Jupiters \u2013 has [\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-220543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220543","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=220543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}