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Rogue Planet Cha 1107-7626 Seen Growing At A Rate Of 6 Billion Tonnes A Second

Rogue Planet Cha 1107-7626 Seen Growing At A Rate Of 6 Billion Tonnes A Second

An international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have spotted a rogue planet breaking a new record; growing at a rate of 6 billion tonnes per second. Rogue planets – sometimes called free-floating planets – are interstellar, planetary-mass objects that are not gravitationally bound to a star or a brown dwarf, but float …

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