ESO Images Rogue Planet
The image is strangely compelling; a lone planet, drifting endlessly through the dead, cold void of space. Science fiction writers love them, one such world, Danaan, was the subject of the The Eternity Artifact, by L.E. Modesitt Jr. In that novel, the planet’s extreme velocity and a trajectory carrying it straight out of the galaxy suggested alien engineering, providing the rationale for a last moment excursion before it passed into […]
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