Solo planets may be surprisingly common
Wandering worlds — with no parent star — raise questions about what it means to be a planet

GOING ROGUE A disk of gas and dust swirls around OTS 44, a rogue planet shown in this artist’s illustration. It may have formed the same way stars are made.
A. M. Quetz/MPIA
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