If you think being stuck in a strange town late at night after the last bus has gone is lonely, then give a thought for the exoplanet PSO J318.5-22. Discovered this year by astronomers at the University of Hawaii, this planet was found floating through interstellar space without a parent star and is one of the smallest free-floating objects seen outside of the Solar System... Continue Reading Astronomers find exoplanet floating through interstellar space
Section: Space
Tags: Astronomy, Brown dwarf, Exoplanet, University of Hawaii
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