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A rogue planet is a planet not orbiting a star. Instead of orbiting stars, rogue planets wander space between the stars. There are estimates that there may be trillions of such planets in our galaxy alone. IEEE Spectrum recently had an article about rogue planets and their detection: https://spectrum.ieee.org/rogue-planet.
Also see: Stars
The James Webb Space Telescope recently found some rogue planets:
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