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Bound and unbound planets abound

Two teams searching for extrasolar planets have jointly discovered a new population of objects: ten Jupiter-mass planets far from their host stars, or perhaps even floating freely through the Milky Way. See Letter p.349

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Wambsganss, J. Bound and unbound planets abound. Nature 473, 289–291 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/473289a

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