Planetary scientists have discovered a Saturn-sized rogue planet in the center of the Milky Way

A team of planetary scientists from different countries has discovered a Saturn-sized rogue planet in the central regions of the Milky Way. The planet is 9.9 thousand light-years away from Earth. This is evidenced by the publication of a group of researchers in the scientific journal Science.

"This object is part of the mass range of the "rogue planets", which in the past astronomers called the "Einstein desert" because of the assumption that planets with a mass significantly higher than Earth's are extremely rarely ejected outside of star systems," the researchers said in the publication.

The discovery of this planet, according to scientists, confirmed the theory that large planets are rarely ejected from star systems. The discovery was made under the supervision of Andrzej Udalski, director of the Warsaw University Observatory, as part of an optical gravitational lensing (OGLE) experiment aimed at searching for gravitational microlenses generated by nearby and invisible objects.

It is specified that within the framework of the project, astronomers have discovered several similar celestial bodies at once.

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