Common Jupiters?

Common Jupiters?
Wed, 18 May 2011 12:31:00 -0500

Freelance writer Robert Brault offers a metaphor for the night sky, "A trillion asterisks and no explanations." By supporting astronomers, the National Science Foundation (NSF) helps to provide explanations. A recent NSF- and NASA-funded study provides one more explanation.

Astronomers have discovered a new population of Jupiter-size planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. According to the scientists, these lone worlds were ...

More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=119453&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click

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