Exoplanets Floating Freely, Without A Star
Exoplanets Floating Freely, Without A Star
Mon July 18th, 2011
NPR
Reporting in Nature, researchers write of ten newly discovered exoplanets that appear to be very distant from their stars, or not orbiting them at all. Planetary scientist Sara Seager and Astronomer Joachim Wambsganss talk with NPR's Science Friday host Ira Flatow about the discovery, and whether such planets could support life.