Astronomers have obtained images of a group of objects beyond our solar system that, based on their mass alone, could qualify as planets. The faint objects lie in a young star cluster, sigma Orionis, 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion.
Three of the objects (reddish, marked by triangles) in the sigma Orionis star cluster that may be free-floating planets.
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