Rogue Planet Spotted Devouring 6 Billion Tons of Gas, Dust at Record Speed

Hungry Rogue Planet Is Gobbling Gas and Dust at 6 Billion Tons per Second

The free-floating object is swallowing surrounding material at an astonishing, record-breaking pace.

Scientists Spot "Rogue" Planet Floating Between Stars, Devouring Everything in Reach

About 620 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon, a strange planet is devouring everything around it at a furious pace. Cha 1107-7626, a “rogue” planet because it doesn’t orbit a star, has suddenly increased its appetite in recent months and is now gobbling every bit of gas, dust and rocks near it at an astonishing rate of six billion tons per second, according to a new study by European scientists published in The Astrophysical Journa…

Astronomers baffled by a rogue planet growing at a record rate of six BILLION tonnes per second

A rogue planet 620 light-years from Earth has baffled scientists as it puts on a record-breaking 'growth spurt'. In a months-long feeding frenzy, the planet hoovered up six billion tonnes of gas and dust every second. The distant world, officially known as Cha 1107-7626, is located in the Chamaeleon constellation and is what scientists call a 'rogue planet'. This means it is a free-floating mass which drifts through space by itself, rather than …

Rogue planet spotted devouring 6 billion tons of gas, dust at record speed

Astronomers have captured a “rogue planet” devouring 6 billion tons of gas and dust per second, marking the record speed and blurring the line between stars and planets.The mysterious...

Astronomers observe a free-floating rogue planet growing at a rate never seen before

A free-floating planet has been observed by astronomers to be gathering dust at an unprecedented rate - what does this tell us?Illustration of the rogue planet Cha 1107-7626, which has just undergone a rather large growth spurt. Credit: ESO.A mysterious rogue planet has gone through a bit of a growth spurt, gobbling up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of six billion tonnes a second – the strongest growth rate ever recorded for any pl…

Six billion tons a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate - Science Tech Updates

Astronomers have identified an enormous “growth spurt” in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our solar system, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead. The new observations, made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), reveal that this free-floating planet is eating up gas and dust […] The post Six billion tons a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate appeare…