Ep. 721: Rogue Planets

Astronomy Cast

Science, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Space

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🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 721: Rogue Planets By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on May 20, 2024. Most of the exoplanets we’ve found are around stars, where they belong. But a few have been found free-floating in interstellar space. The evidence is growing that there are a lot of them out there, maybe even more than planets with stars. How do they form and how can we learn more about them?

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0:00.0	Oh, Oh, Join Patreon for an ad-free experience at patreon.com
0:54.0	astronomy cast
0:58.0	astronomy cast episode 721
1:01.0	rogue planets welcome to astronomy cast or weekly facts 2021 Rogue planets.
1:03.0	Welcome to Astronomy Cast or weekly Facts-based Journey through the Cosmos,
1:06.2	where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
1:10.0	I'm Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the University with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary
1:15.5	Science Institute and the Director of Cosmoquist.
1:18.8	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
1:20.0	I am doing well, although one of my lights took a mighty leap right before we went live.
1:26.7	So if you're watching this on YouTube, thank you for being here and I apologize for my lighting.
1:31.7	But you, how are you after your grand adventures?
1:35.4	Oh, it's great.
1:36.2	We had an amazing time in Japan.
1:38.6	It's surprisingly affordable.
1:41.3	The travel was effortless. The level of English there is incredible. I can't think of anything that went wrong.
1:51.0	I didn't buy my rail pass in advance.
1:56.3	And so we had to pay cash for all of the rail
1:59.8	that we did.
2:00.3	We spent a lot of time in front of machines punching in destinations and putting in the exact
2:05.8	change to be able to go where we wanted to go and it would have been a lot easier just
2:09.9	but I think it was we saved money but it was a pain but apart from that the food was amazing people
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