I know i am right.

i'm going to make a coffee

Now another news, this time about a brown dwarf, not a planet, but still amazing. The brown dwarf orbits not a burning star, but a collapsed star- a white dwarf. The most amazing thing is how close the brown dwarf orbits the star and the orbital period. The brown dwarf orbits the star from 2/3 the radius of the Sun! That's only 288,000 miles. Almost like the Moon's distance from the Earth. The brown dwarf orbits the star once every 2 hours. 12 times per Earth day; 3,000 times every Venus day. At 500,000 miles an hour! At a speed like that, a 5 minute space trip around the Earth from 288,000 miles would be nice.

Another, not new discovery is of a binary star system of 2 white dwarfs. If 288,000 miles apart is a tight system, these white dwarfs orbit each other only 50,000 miles apart! Their orbital periods are 24 times shorter than the previous. They orbit each other once every 5 minutes! 288+ times an Earth day; 70,000+ times every Venus day. 3,800,000+ miles an hour; 1,100+ miles a second! But there is a pulsar that spins 300,000 times every time those 2 white dwarfs orbit each other. Or 1,000+ times a second. 86,400,000+ times an Earth day; 21,000,000,000+ times a Venus day!

Go to the web I posted if you would like to listen to the sounds of the Pulsars. They mentioned 1 pulsar that you can't listen to the sound, because it was discovered years after the web was made. But they never mentioned the 1/1000 second pulsar, which was discovered years later.

We are seeing radiation from the planet – not reflected light – so no phases. If the planet were to be illuminated from the parent star – I suspect the phase would still be invisible given the technology we have at present

help or hurt?

Whether this is due to slow cooling, or from some internal power source I don't know. (could the energy be coming from radioactive decay?)

WOW!!

"Did I miss something or are there any reasons this isn't just a lucky shot."

>>>This is from the arxiv paper:

"Although our photometry and spectroscopy establish that the candidate companion has low gravity and a mass in the planetary regime, they do not prove that it is physically bound to the primary star rather than a free-floating planet in the association. A recent census of the Upper Scorpius association (Carpenter et al. 2006) reported 340 members with masses above 0.1 M⊙ over a 150 deg2 area of the sky. Assuming
conservatively that there are as many free-floating planets in the association as there are stars > 0.1 M⊙, the probability that one would fall within 2.5′′ from any of the 82 stars we have observed would be only 3×10-4. Thus this scenario is highly unlikely. Proper-motion confirmation of physical association will nevertheless be very important, and should be feasible within the next few years."

"hi, i dont know much about anything, but how can it be 330AU and so hot?"

>>>I think this passage from the article answers your question justin –

"Team member Marten van Kerkwijk described the group’s search method. “We targeted young stars so that any planetary mass object they hosted would not have had time to cool, and thus would still be relatively bright,” he said. “This is one reason we were able to see it at all.”

Basically, as it is a young stellar system, any planetary objects in the system will have only recently coalesced. This process adds a huge amount of energy to a growing planet, and so this is how it derives its heat.

Then we do not have one observation bias, but two!

It does raise interesting questions about the formation of such objects, particularly the fact that it's so hot compared to its distance from the star.

again, the vastness of a galaxy, and by extension the universe, is amazing and impossible to comprehend. but fun to try!

Nice going, folks!