A team of astronomers has discovered one of the youngest and brightest free-floating, planet-like objects in relatively close proximity to the Sun. Only 95 light years away and at an age of only 10 million years, which means it's practically a baby on a galactic time scale, the object is between four and eight times the mass of Jupiter, and hence falls in the mass range between a large planet and a small brown dwarf star. Free-floating exo-planet analogs such as this are much easier to scrutinize than planets orbiting around stars since they are drifting in space all alone and observations are not overwhelmed by the brightness of a host star sitting right next door.