CosmoView Episode 37: Largest Collection of Free-Floating Planets Found in the Milky Way
Channel: NOIRLabAstro
Date: 2021-12-22

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. This is the largest sample of such planets found in a single group and it nearly doubles the number known over the entire sky.

More information and download options: http://noirlab.edu/public/videos/noirlab2131a/

Credit:
Images and Videos:  NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)/DSS2/Miret-Roig et al./M. Kornmesser/H.Bouy/COSMIC-DANCE team/T. van de Zalm/M. Attard.

Image Processing: M. Zamani

Music: Stellardrone - Airglow