Rogue Planet Found Having Massive “Growth Spurt”

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This artist’s impression shows Cha 1107-7626, a rogue planet located about 620 light-years away. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser

New observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) identified an enormous a rogue planet with the strongest growth rate ever recorded. These observations reveal that this free-floating planet is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of six billion tonnes a second.

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