While about half of stars and brown dwarfs exist in isolation, with the rest in multiple star systems, we typically think of planets as subordinate objects in orbit around a star. More recently, however, improvements in telescope technology have enabled us to see smaller and cooler isolated objects in space, including FFPs – objects that have too low a mass or temperature to be considered brown dwarfs.
how wandering bodies in interstellar space ended up on their own
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