There are roughly about 40 billion free floating planets in our galaxy like one tells the number of the stars a vagabond planets yeah they have no stars. can either fall into the host star or get kicked out so that the orbit does not maintain itself aroundYeah those are the two solutions and curiously we see the effect of both the planets that fell in the star they pollute the star Yeah it's really amazing I think but they were detected through what we call microlensing They are dark we don't see them but they go in front of roughly in front of a star and they lens the light of the star due to their gravity.
How do we discover more exoplanets? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Matt Kirshen explore telescopes, exoplanets, and more with professor of astrophysics and Principal Investigator of HATNet Exoplanet Survey, Gáspár Bakos.
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