Rogue planet outside our solar system is expanding rapidly in huge growth spurt'

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"The free-floating planet is currently consuming gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of six billion tonnes a second - the strongest growth rate ever recorded for any planet, according to physicists. The new observations, recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, were made at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) located in Chile's Atacama Desert."

The Independent covers topics from reproductive rights to climate change and Big Tech and solicits donations to fund reporters on the ground. Donations enable continued deployment of journalists to interview both sides and maintain free access to reporting without paywalls. The Independent states it is trusted across the US political spectrum and asserts that quality journalism should be paid for by those who can afford it. Astronomers discovered a rogue planet, Cha 1107-7626, accreting gas and dust at six billion tonnes per second, with observations published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters from the European Southern Observatory in Chile. The object has a mass five to ten times Jupiter's and lies about 630 light-years away in Chamaeleon, and the research team found the accretion rate to be unstable.

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