• Cyberflunk@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    wtf,they have several classifications.

    • free-floating planetary-mass object
    • exoplanet
    • rogue planet
    • brown dwarf

    welcome to science where theres names, AND acknowledgement that things change with new data

  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Strangely attracted to distant stars yet unable to establish a stable orbit, Simp 0136 is condemned to a lonely existence.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    21 days ago

    So, my understanding of auroras is, the planet’s magnetic field draws particles emitted by the sun toward the poles, and as those particles interact with the atmosphere they glow. So without a star and thus without solar wind, where do the aurora come from?

    • Gust@piefed.social
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      21 days ago

      I mean, it has a magnetic field 6 or 7 orders of magnitude higher than ours. Id guess that extra strength allows it to pull particles from much further away and possibly from sources much more reticent to give up their particles than solar wind