Sara Seager is quoted in Science’s online daily news section in an article entitled, "Finding Planemos.” The article focuses on a report, at this week’s AAS meeting in Calgary, from researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on four planetary mass objects, planemos, about four times the size of Jupiter.

Located approximately 450 light years away, one of these objects—about 8 times the size of Jupiter—is not associated with brown dwarfs or young stars that give rise to new planets. Rather, it appears to be drifting alone in space and evolving similar to the way Jupiter and its moons did. Though this system may not survive long—Seager warns that there is still a possibility that if the masses were underestimated they could just be brown dwarfs—she comments, “It is amazing to think of what other kinds of rogue planets could be out there, and if life could exist on such forsaken bodies.”