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Friday 20 May 2011

Unbound planetary frequency highlighted by gravitational lensing

Scientists of the The Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) Collaboration the The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) Collaboration have detected unbound Jupiter-sized objects at twice the frequency previously assumed in galactic models.

See Nature and BBC News.

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