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January 26, 2016

Lonely Planet Finds a Mum a Trillion Km Away
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 26, 2016
Astronomers studying a lonely planet drifting through space have found its mum; a star a trillion kilometers away. The planet, known as 2MASS J2126-8140, has an orbit around its host star that takes nearly a million Earth years and is more than 140 times wider than Pluto's. This makes it easily the largest solar system ever found. "We were very surprised to find such a low-mass object so far from its parent star," said Dr. Simon Murphy of The Australian National University (ANU) Research Sch ... read more

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