A HuffPo article from 2011 stated that a massive gas planet may exist in our galaxy, and the article has a busy comment thread going!
This isn't a new revelation, but the story does stay in rotation, in and out of our consciousness it goes as this "rumor" has been swirling the bowl for a long time, almost seemingly testing civilization's reaction to see if we're "ready" for it. How interesting! We're ready for the news! Give yourself a pat on the back. Anyway, this was just a reminder that folks are still reading this stuff. I came across the story while reading another totally unrelated story. I suppose that big search engine shot this article up and when I finished the article I had been reading (train crash, I think) the first thing I noticed, of course, was an article on Tyche, that's two years old, mind you.
From the article:
This isn't a new revelation, but the story does stay in rotation, in and out of our consciousness it goes as this "rumor" has been swirling the bowl for a long time, almost seemingly testing civilization's reaction to see if we're "ready" for it. How interesting! We're ready for the news! Give yourself a pat on the back. Anyway, this was just a reminder that folks are still reading this stuff. I came across the story while reading another totally unrelated story. I suppose that big search engine shot this article up and when I finished the article I had been reading (train crash, I think) the first thing I noticed, of course, was an article on Tyche, that's two years old, mind you.
From the article:
Scientists may soon be able to prove the existence of the gas giant, which could be four times the size of Jupiter, according to astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The two first proposed Tyche's existence in order to explain a change in path of comets entering the solar system, according to The Independent.