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Record-Breaking Rogue Planet Seen Growing At A Rate Of 6 Billion Tonnes Per Second

Observing the object over several months, they found it flared up dramatically. It's gobbling up 6 billion tonnes of mass per ...
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A Rogue Planet Is Devouring Six Billion Tons of Gas Every Second

The rogue planet, known as Cha 1107-7626, is about 620 light-years away in the constellation Chamaeleon. It weighs in at five ...

Six billion tons a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate

Astronomers have identified an enormous "growth spurt" in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our solar system, ...
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Exoplanet without a sun found gobbling up 6 billion tons of gas and dust per second

Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...
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Scientists Spot “Rogue” Planet Floating Between Stars, Devouring Everything in Reach

It eats... and eats... and eats... The post Scientists Spot “Rogue” Planet Floating Between Stars, Devouring Everything in ...
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Young rogue planet displays record-breaking 'growth spurt'

A young rogue planet about 620 light-years away from Earth has experienced a record-breaking "growth spurt," hoovering up ...

Rogue planet has a record growth rate of 6.6 billion tons per second

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record rate of 6.6 billion tons per second.