A Cosmic Wanderer Steps on the Scales for the First Time ⚡ экспресс
Original: "A free-floating-planet microlensing event caused by a Saturn-mass object"
Astronomers have weighed a rogue planet for the first time, using the distortion of light from a distant star.
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Astronomers have weighed a solitary planet wandering in the dark between stars for the first time. This tiny giant, with 0.22 Jupiter masses, was once ejected from its home system like a stone from a sling. Thanks to telescopes on Earth and in space, we now have 'binocular vision' for finding rogue worlds.
🎯 There could be more free-floating planets in the Milky Way than stars — a whole silent population that until now has eluded an accurate 'census'.
🎬 In the film 'Melancholia', a rogue planet brings doom to Earth; real outcasts just quietly drift in the dark, threatening no one.