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Pawel Pietrukowicz

1 articles · 30 co-authors · latest: 2025-12-31

A Cosmic Wanderer Steps on the Scales for the First Time

Free-floating planets, untethered to stars, long remained a mystery: without an exact distance, their mass couldn't be measured. By combining telescopes on Earth and in space, scientists calculated the distance to object KMT-2024-BLG-0792 and found its mass—just 0.22 Jupiter masses. It turned out to
arXiv:2601.00057 · 2025-12-31