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If the last scenario is correct, then this discovery demonstrates that planetary-mass bodies can be made through the same mechanism that builds stars.
YubaNet.com 2010
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For all three stars, we will also be setting increasingly stringent limits on the presence of planetary-mass bodies in the systems.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2010
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"The most interesting implication of this result is that it shows that the process that makes binary stars extends all the way down to planetary masses -- so it appears that nature is able to make planetary-mass companions through two very different mechanisms."
Penn State Live 2010
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Their investigations of the nature of this mysterious object and its companion brown dwarf have revealed a new mechanism that Nature can use to make orbiting planetary-mass objects.
Penn State Live 2010
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"Our research demonstrates that nature can make planetary-mass bodies through the same mechanism that builds stars -- and that the mystery object has both planet-like and star-like characteristics," said Luhamn, who is a researcher at the Penn State Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds.
Penn State Live 2010
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Until now, the only planet-like bodies that have been directly imaged outside of the solar system are either free-floating in space (i.e. not found around a star), or orbit brown dwarfs, which are dim and make it easier to detect planetary-mass companions.
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The existence of a planetary-mass companion so far from its parent star comes as a surprise, and poses a challenge to theoretical models of star and planet formation.
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Until now, the only planet-like bodies that have been directly imaged outside of the solar system are either free-floating in space (i.e. not found around a star), or orbit brown dwarfs, which are dim and make it easier to detect planetary-mass companions.
Universe Today 2008
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This seemed like a perfectly reasonable model until recently when astronomers discovered a double system of these planimos, these planetary-mass objects.
Universe Today 2008
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Shrouded in mystery yet home to Globulettes - the seeds of brown dwarfs and free-floating planetary-mass objects.
Universe Today 2008
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