Free-floating planetary mass objects-worlds that roam #interstellar #space untethered to a parent star-challenge conventional notions of planetary formation and migration, but also of #star and brown dwarf formation.
But they also come as binaries.
Here is the discovery of one companion candidate around a Taurus member with a separation of 18 AU, with an estimated primary mass in the range between 3-6 Jupiter masses and secondary mass between 2.6-5.2 Jupiter masses.
#astronomy #exoplanets
https://astrobiology.com/2025/06/multiplicity-of-young-isolated-planetary-mass-objects-in-taurus-and-upper-scorpius.html
