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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

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

"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

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

"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

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.

SpaceRef - Calendar of Events 2008

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.

SpaceRef - Calendar of Events 2008

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

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

Shrouded in mystery yet home to Globulettes - the seeds of brown dwarfs and free-floating planetary-mass objects.

Universe Today 2008