“We know from direct imaging searches of young stars that very few stars have giant planets in [wide] orbits,” Bate said. “It is difficult to accept that there were many large planetary systems in Orion to disrupt.”
Rogue Objects Abound
At this point, many researchers suspect there’s more than one way to make these strange in-between objects. For instance, with some fiddling,…
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