Gigantic Planet or Cold Star – Results Make You Wonder #space #astronomy #galaxy #poetry #poem

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What might a brown dwarf star look like?

So far away

It’s hard to say,

In the center of the Milky Way.

Enormous planet,

It’s gigantic,

Lensing light fantastic.

Consider brown dwarf,

But not big enough

For fusing quarks to morph.

Twenty-two thousand

Lightyears away,

That’s seven thousand parsecs

Into the Milky Way.

by Kate Rauner

OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb is a planet so huge (thirteen times the size of Jupiter) that it’s right at the edge of supporting fusion -of being a star.

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