A gas giant with no home star

[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

Hi,

I think this is fascinating:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-1...-space/5013996

Apparently the planet does have a heat signature. What are the implications? What would conditions there be like? Is it like a sort of mini self contained solar system, all-in-one?. Even.........is some sort of life possible?

What a strange universe.

[pdalek (Patrick)]

The paper describing the discovery can be found at
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0457