Scientists of the Laboratory of Astrophysics Bordeaux and the University of Vienna discovered several dozen strange planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. This is the largest group of planets that do not rotate around the parent stars. This is reported in the article published in the Nature Astronomy magazine.
Researchers analyzed the data collected over 20 years with the help of terrestrial and space telescopes, including the VLT telescope, Vista and the GAIA spacecraft. They conducted a search for sources that are hot enough to emit weak infrared or optical radiation, including large planets age several million years.
It turned out that in the field of star formation, located in the direction of the constellations of the serpentine and the upper scorpion, are located at at least 70 outcast planets with a mass comparable to Jupiter. The results suggest that such planets in the Milky Way can be much larger than previously thought.
With the planets-outcasts or planets-wanders, they are called freely flying in the space space of the planet, which were thrown from parental systems as a result of a cataclysm or due to gravitational impact on the part of other massive objects.