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Rogue Planets Floating in Space Appear to Be Forming Their Own Moons


Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on a miniature scale.

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