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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ABACUS" data-source="post: 15712882" data-attributes="member: 244887">Alone in Space: Free-Floating Planet DiscoveredGalileo Galilei fought colleagues and the Roman Inquisition to defend  the theory that planets orbit around stars — four-hundred years later,  what would he have made of the discovery of a strange planet, floating  by itself a mere 80 light-years away from Earth? “I had often wondered if such solitary objects exist, and now we know  they do,” said Dr. Michael Liu, leader of the international team of  astronomers at the Maui telescope that found the exotic celestial body. While PSO J318.5-22, as the planet is called, might not actually  upend the heliocentric worldview (it seems to have broken away from a  collection of young stars), it presents a unique opportunity to  scientists: Because it is not caught in any star’s glare, it allows for  the first close study of a young — and very lonely — gas-giant planet. <img src="http://timeecocentric.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/mpia_v-ch-quetz.jpg?w=360&h=240&crop=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Source : TIME More Details : [<a href="http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/LonelyPlanet/" target="_blank">Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii</a>] </blockquote>

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