Free-Floating Planets and Stellar Clusters
By Jarrod Hurley, Michael Shara
Scientists have been looking for planets in strange places, far from their parent stars, within some of the densest star clusters in the Galaxy
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March-April 2002
Volume 90, Number 2
Page 140
DOI: 10.1511/2002.10.140
The existence of planets outside our solar system has been a delicate matter in astronomy ever since the 16th-century philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for (among other things) proposing that the universe holds an infinite number of other worlds. People are no longer set aflame in the public square for proposing the existence of extrasolar planets, but the field remains contentious.
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