Artist's impression of a free-floating planet
An artist's impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF's NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and in orbit, astronomers have discovered at least 70 new free-floating planets — planets that wander through space without a parent star — in a nearby region of the Milky Way known as Upper Scorpius OB stellar association.
Credit:NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
About the Image
Id: | noirlab2131a |
Type: | Artwork |
Release date: | Dec. 22, 2021, 9 a.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2131 |
Size: | 5120 x 2880 px |
About the Object
Category: | Illustrations |
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