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Six hundred and twenty light-years from Earth, a young rogue planet is experiencing an extraordinary growth spurt.
Astronomers have spotted a planet named Cha 1107-7626 taking in gas and dust from the disc around it at a rate of six billion tonnes per second, which is a record for a planet of its size. Similar behaviour has been seen in stars, but not in planets.
"We were trying to study how fast is the rate of material getting into the object.
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