Some planets drift through the galaxy with no star at all: frozen, dark and alone. And there may be more of them than stars.
Imagery:
ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser
ESO/M. Kornmesser/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard)
NASA/JPL-Caltech
ESO/Miret-Roig et al.
ESO/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard)
ESO/VISTA. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
ESO/H.H. Heyer
ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), the PDRs4All ERS Team
NASA, ESA, CSAScience leads and image processing: M. McCaughrean, S. Pearson
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