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Object Defies Categorization As Planet or Star

Posted by timothy on from the stella-incognito dept.

Kligat writes "The COROT project of the French Space Agency has detected an object described as defying categorization as a planet, star, or brown dwarf. Although only 0.8 times the radius of Jupiter, it is over 20 times as massive, giving it a density twice that of the metal platinum. If it is a star, it would be the smallest of those ever discovered."

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  1. my questions are by Jarik+C-Bol · · Score: 0, Redundant

    if it does not emit light, how the blazes did we find it? and second, if its has a similar density to platinum, who's to say its not just a big ball of platinum out there? (yea thats the dumb question there)

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