{"id":712265,"date":"2021-12-26T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=712265"},"modified":"2021-12-26T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T14:50:01","slug":"largest-collection-of-free-floating-planets-found-in-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=712265","title":{"rendered":"Largest collection of free-floating planets found in the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using observations and archival data from several of NSF&#8217;s NOIRLab&#8217;s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and in orbit, astronomers have discovered at least 70 new free-floating planets\u2014planets that wander through space without a parent star\u2014in a nearby region of the Milky Way. This is the largest sample of such planets found in a single group and it nearly doubles the number known over the entire sky.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-12-largest-free-floating-planets-milky.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Largest collection of free-floating planets found in the Milky Way<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using observations and archival data from several of NSF&#8217;s NOIRLab&#8217;s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and in orbit, astronomers have discovered at least 70 new free-floating&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}