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"It has been speculated that Earth-like rogue planets could have very thick atmosphere that keeps them relatively warm, or moons of giant rogue planets could experience tidal heating and have oceans beneath their icy surface"
Scientists recently suggested that alien worlds around distant stars could be detected by looking for radio waves given off by their auroras. Now Vanhamaki calculates the same technique might work for interstellar planets.
Originally posted by Illustronic
A body with no star supporting life is absolute bunk, junk science, and calling it junk science is really discrediting science. This kid author has zero astrophysics background and majored in journalism. This article is nothing but a creative writing exercise or Sci Fi entertainment, and I don't believe the physics he had to take to study to be a marine biologist he paid any attention in or outright flunked out.
Charles Quixote Choi
"My results show that there is a real, although small, chance of detecting moon-induced emissions from giant rogue planets that weigh more than eight Jupiter masses,"
"It has been speculated that Earth-like rogue planets could have very thick atmosphere that keeps them relatively warm, or moons of giant rogue planets could experience tidal heating and have oceans beneath their icy surface,"