This activity results from a process called tidal heating, in which Jupiter’s massive gravity constantly stretches and compresses the much smaller moon during its noncircular orbit. Rogue Planets Going Rogue In a single generation, we went from knowing of only our own planetary system to realizing that planets likely outnumber the hundreds of billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
Recent research suggests that rogue planets — worlds that don’t orbit a star — are by far the most common type, outnumbering star-bound worlds […] ASA Science.
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