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Astronomers have found an intense ‘growth spurt’ in a rogue planet – a planet that doesn’t orbit a star. Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) reveal that this free-floating planet is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of six billion tonnes a second, the strongest ever found for a planet of any kind. This video summarises the discovery.
Credit: ESO
Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner.
Editing: Angelos Tsaousis.
Web and technical support: Raquel Yumi Shida and E. Arango.
Written by: Malika Nora Duffek.
Music: Stellardrone – Rendezvous With Rama.
Footage and photos: ESO, Luis Calçada, Martin Kornmesser, Angelos Tsaousis, Christoph Malin, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Meingast et al.
Scientific consultant: Paola Amico, Mariya Lyubenova.
Based on research by: V. Almendros-Abad et al., ApJL.
scitechdaily.com/rogue-planet-feasting-faster-than-any-world-ever-seen
Astronomers have found an intense ‘growth spurt’ in a rogue planet – a planet that doesn’t orbit a star. Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) reveal that this free-floating planet is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of six billion tonnes a second, the strongest ever found for a planet of any kind. This video summarises the discovery.
Credit: ESO
Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner.
Editing: Angelos Tsaousis.
Web and technical support: Raquel Yumi Shida and E. Arango.
Written by: Malika Nora Duffek.
Music: Stellardrone – Rendezvous With Rama.
Footage and photos: ESO, Luis Calçada, Martin Kornmesser, Angelos Tsaousis, Christoph Malin, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Meingast et al.
Scientific consultant: Paola Amico, Mariya Lyubenova.
Based on research by: V. Almendros-Abad et al., ApJL.
