Rogue Planets
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
British (England - East Anglia, Cambridge, Hertfordshire) British (General)Transcript
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We've only been able to detect the planets of other stars for a few decades. But we already know that planets are plentiful. They outnumber the stars. Almost all of them will be very different from earth and hostile to life as we know it. But what do we know about life? We've only met one kind so far earth life, human eyes see only a sliver of light that shines in the cosmos. But science gives us the power to see what our senses cannot. Infrared is the kind of light made visible by night vision goggles, throw an infrared sensor across the darkness and you will find a rogue planet, a world without a son. Our galaxy has billions of them adrift in perpetual night. They're orphans cast away from their mother stars during the chaotic birth of their native star systems, rogue planets are molten at the core but frozen at the surface. There may be oceans of liquid water in that zone between those extremes, who knows what might be swimming there.