BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Strange ‘twin’ new worlds found
A pair of strange new worlds that blur the boundaries between planets and stars have been discovered beyond our Solar System.
A few dozen such objects have been identified in recent years but this is the first set of “twins”.
Dubbed “planemos”, they circle each other rather than orbiting a star.
Their existence challenges current theories about the formation of planets and stars, astronomers report in the journal Science.
“This is a truly remarkable pair of twins – each having only about 1% the mass of our Sun,” said Ray Jayawardhana of the University of Toronto, co-author of the Science paper.
“Its mere existence is a surprise, and its origin and fate a bit of a mystery.”
What, no comments about seeing double?
I read this on the Times of London site several days ago…..but didn’t pass it along….it wasn’t tech or war 🙂
I thought this was cool….to bad they aren’t in our neighborhood.
It is kind of cool, but it’s not really so outrageous that a couple of planets could either be thrown out of their solar systems and end up orbiting each other or form out of a clump of dust not big enough to form a star…
Uh, Perhaps God created the universe and not a big explosion? Who knows.. stranger things have happened eh? Guess we’ll find out when we die… For most.. only about 40 years from now!! Not too long to wait for an answer eh?!!? 🙂