• Rogue Worlds 3

    Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Phillips Auditorium 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Free-floating, or "rogue", planetary-mass objects have been discovered wandering through the Galaxy unbound to any star. The origins of these objects remain poorly understood, and likely involve a combination of many different processes relevant to star and planet formation. Direct imaging surveys of young star-forming regions continue to find hundreds of high-mass rogue planets, though […]