Rogue planet

Yeah.

Um, and then finally there is the specter, the scary specter of something called rogue planets that we've discovered.

So these are a particular type of exoplanet that, uh, could be dangerous, but, uh, we'll come back to that.

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Yeah.

Um, so tho- those are the ones that are in the Goldilocks zone, and we have tended to focus on that because, you know, wouldn't it be wonderful to be, to find another planet with life on it or somewhere we could live after we wreck this one? So yeah, tha- tha- there's a focus on that, and in fact, uh, uh, there's a, there's a, a, a specific satellite that's launching in a few years' time that will look f- uh, at those more closely, the ones that we think are in the Goldilocks zone.

So let's, let's get back to these rogue planets.

So these are ones that don't have a star of their own.

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Rogue planets are one of the great mysteries left in the universe.

They are planetary-sized objects that are not gravitationally bound to a star.

We don't fully understand how they formed.

Perhaps they were born in a planetary system, but got ejected during the system's turbulent beginnings.

Following that thought, perhaps our own solar system also had additional planets at the beginning before they were cast away to forever roam the galaxy alone.

Rogue planets could also be protostars that simply failed to absorb the mass needed to become a star, or even a brown dwarf.

We expect there to be billions to trillions of them out there in just our galaxy alone, although because they are hard to detect, this really is an educated guess at best.