A planet that does not orbit a host star has been found 100 light years from Earth.
The planet, named CFBDSIR2149, is known as a rogue or free-floating planet because it wanders through space free of its parent star.
This planet has a temperature of around 398 degrees Celsius it also has a mass between four and seven times bigger than Jupiter's.
A rogue planet is thought to form in two different ways it either starts as a normal planet and is then kicked out its star system believed to be the case with CFBDSIR2149 or it begins the same way a star does from collapsing gas and dust but does not have enough mass to cause the nuclear fusion that creates starlight.
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