Far, far away...
Lonely planet in huge solar system.
A massive planet thought to have been free floating in space is actually in a colossal orbit around a star 1 trillion kilometers away, James Griffiths reports on cnn.com.
That's according to a team of astronomers in the UK, U.S. and Australia, who revealed last week that snappily-named planet 2MASS J2126 is in an orbit around its star 7,000-times the size of Earth's orbit around the sun.
For more, including a fascinating video: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/world/lonely-planet-largest-solar-system/
Photo: cnn.com.
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