http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/08/06/massive-glowing-rogue-planet-spotted-drifting-in-space.amp.html
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"Kao and her team are surprised that the object isn't orbiting a star, a typical behavior of planets.
“Detecting SIMP J01365663+0933473 with the VLA through its auroral radio emission also means that we may have a new way of detecting exoplanets, including the elusive rogue ones not orbiting a parent star,” Caltech's Gregg Hallinan added in the statement.
Originally discovered in 2016, it was only recently that it was identified as a planetary-mass object, having originally been classified as a brown dwarf. Once more data was obtained, the idea that SIMP J01365663+0933473 was a brown dwarf was scrapped.
It's thought that SIMP J01365663+0933473 is only 200 million years-old and is just 20 light-years away from Earth. It also has a surface temperature of 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to minus 234 degrees Fahrenheit for Jupiter and 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit for the Sun.
It was first detected using a radio telescope, the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array."
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