Lasya Revuri

A class of exoplanets, the so-called hot Jupiters, have masses like that of Jupiter but lie rather astonishingly close to their parent stars. Since they were discovered in the mid-1990s, these planets have fascinated astronomers. At distances as small as 0.01 astronomical units (AU), they orbit much closer than Mercury orbits the Sun, completing their […]

Within the vast expanse of the galaxy, innumerable celestial entities adhere to specific trajectories, bound to their progenitor star by gravitational forces. Nonetheless, a distinctive category of planets exists that contravenes this typical behavior, wandering through the cosmos unanchored—these are identified as rogue planets. Frequently termed “wandering worlds,” rogue planets have detached themselves from any