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I wonder what the ratio is of dark bodies to the star systems we can see? Are there vast numbers of invisible worlds hiding between the stars?



Yes, as far as I know, astronomers think so. Those are exoplanets. Planets without any nearby stars.

Even in our own solar system we don't know whats out in our Kuiper Belt. Probably nothing too big or we'd be able to measure the gravity effect.

But in the Oort cloud, we could have multiple Pluto sized things out there and have no idea.


An exoplanet is just any planet outisde our own star system. You're thinking of "rogue planets".


Sounds like we've found our dark matter.


One of the proposed dark matter explanations is "massive astrophysical compact halo objects" (MACHOs). Brown dwarfs are among some of the possible MACHO candidates.




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