Strange Rouge Planet Found

On August 2nd 2018, a team of scientists working at the Carl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, announced that they have discovered what they believe to be a large rogue planet. What makes the planet a rouge is that it appears to be traveling through space without a parent star. The scientists say that the object is 12 times the size of Jupiter and is right at the boundary between being a planet and a brown dwarf. 

Brown dwarfs are what scientists call  "failed stars," or stars that were never able to ignite their hydrogen, yet are too big to be a planet. The object in question, which is being called SIMP J01365663+0933473  has a very powerful magnet field that is 200 times that of Jupiter. According to the team, the object is twenty million light years from Earth, with an estimated age of 200 million years old.