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For 1st time, astronomers measure mass and distance of a rogue planet

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...
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For First Time, The Mass And Distance Of A Solitary “Rogue” Planet Has Been Measured

The team has estimated that the planet is about 22 percent the mass of Jupiter, so roughly a Saturn-sized world. It is ...
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How astronomers measure distance without travelling anywhere

It’s a bit mind-bending to realise that everything we know about the scale of the universe comes from people stuck […] ...

Astronomers measure both mass and distance of a rogue planet for the first time

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...