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astronomers to pass Discovered a significant “growth spurt” in a rogue Planet outside us Solar system,
free floating planet Is currently consuming gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of six billion tons per second – the strongest growth rate recorded for any other PlanetAccording to physicists.
New comments, recently published The Astrophysical Journal Letterswere built on European Southern Observatory (ESO) is located in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
Victor Almendros-Abad, lead author of the recent study, said: “People may think of planets as calm and stable worlds, but with this discovery, we see that planetary-mass objects floating freely in space can be exciting places.
The sphere, officially named Cha 1107-7626, has five to 10 times the mass of Jupiter, and is located in the Chamaeleon constellation, about 630 light years away.
The team of researchers found that the rate of accretion – the process by which the planet is fed by surrounding material – is unstable. By August 2025, the planet was moving about eight times faster than in previous months.
“This is the strongest accretion episode ever recorded for a planetary-mass object,” Mr. Almendros-Abad said.
The team also used existing data from the US-operated James Webb Space Telescope, European and Canadian space agencies, and the Sinfoni spectrograph.
The revelations still leave many scientific questions unanswered about the great mysteries of the universe. Study co-author Alex Scholz, an astronomer at the University of St Andrews, asked: “The origin of rogue planets remains an open question: whether they are the lowest-mass objects e.g. StarsOr were the giant planets ejected from their birth system?
By comparing the light emitted before and during the explosion of evolution, scientists were able to gain insight into the formation process. They found that magnetic activity appears to have played a role in eating up the surrounding mass, which has only ever been explored before. Stars First.
This suggests that even low-mass objects can process magnetic fields strong enough for electrical accretion. The findings suggest that at least some rogue planets may share similar formation paths as stars.
Another phenomenon that is similar to that of stars is that the chemistry of the disk around the planet changed during the accretion episode, with water vapor detected during it, but not before.
Another co-author, astronomer Belinda Damien of the University of St Andrews, said: “This discovery blurs the line between stars and planets and gives us a glimpse into the early formation of rogue planets.”
Co-author and ESO astronomer Amelia Bio said: “The idea that a planetary object could behave like a star is awe-inspiring and invites us to think about what worlds beyond our own might be like during their early stages.”