Rogue planet found drifting through space 12 times larger than Jupiter

A rogue planet bigger than Jupiter found drifting through space with a mysterious glow. The planet which is 12 times as large as Jupiter, sits around 20 light years away from Earth.

This rogue planet is the first object of its kind to be spotted using a radio telescope, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

The object is what scientists call a brown dwarf, nicknamed “failed stars”,  which are larger than planets, but not quite large enough to fuse hydrogen, the way stars do. The boundary line is still debated but scientists tend to draw it at about 13 times the mass of Jupiter.

Both its mass and strength of its magnetic field, which is more than 200 times stronger than Jupiter ’s challenge what scientists know about the variety of astronomical objects found in the depths of space.