Artist's Conception of a Captured Planet (IMAGE)

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Artist's Conception of a Captured Planet

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In this artist's conception, a captured world drifts at the outer edge of a distant star system, so far from its sun-like host that the star's disk is barely resolvable at upper right. New research shows that one in 20 stars within our galaxy might have captured a free-floating planet.

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Christine Pulliam (CfA)

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