Lonely Orphaned Planet Spotted Wandering Aimlessly Through Interstellar Space

It has lost its parent star. It’s lonely way out there in interplanetary space, lonelier still if you don’t have a star to call home. But this solitary life is all CFBDSIR2149 has ever known. Astronomers searching for the faint signatures of brown dwarf stars discovered this Jupiter-class giant hurtling through the cosmos with not star to orbit and nowhere in particular to be. Discovered some 130 light-years from Earth, the planet is too dim to be viewed in the optical spectrum. Bu...