Discovering the planet

Scientists at the Montreal University (Canada) first identified a lonely planet or 'homeless planet' because it did not orbit a star's orbit.

The planet, named CFBDSIR2149 , is 7 times larger than Jupiter, with a temperature of about 400 ° C, which is 50-120 million light-years away.

Scientists believe that this is part of a group of about 30 very young stars called AB Doradus mobile group.

Planet CFBDSIR2149

The planet floats freely, has no gravitational relationship, but still has special standards such as mass, temperature and age to be identified as a planet.

Planet CFBDSIR2149 was discovered thanks to the data of the huge telescope at the Southern Europe Observatory and the Canadian-France-Hawaii telescope and the collaboration of French scientists.

Although astronomers have known for a long time that the "homeless" planet exists, the search process over the past decade is like " finding a needle in many haystacks". This is the first time they have observed it.

The astrophysicist at the University of Montréal Étienne Artigau said: ' We have observed hundreds of millions of stars and planets but only discovered a homeless planet near us.'

However, some astronomers do not agree on the classification of the aforementioned space objects or planets because these objects do not have nuclear reactions in the center, called Brown. dwarf.