{"id":62155,"date":"2025-10-18T15:14:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62155"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:14:57","slug":"rogue-planet-spotted-devouring-6-billion-tons-every-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62155","title":{"rendered":"Rogue planet spotted devouring 6 billion tons every second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hungry_Planet.png\" alt=\"Hungry Planet\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hungry_Planet.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hungry_Planet-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hungry_Planet-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hungry_Planet-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This artist\u2019s impression shows Cha 1107-7626. Located about 620 light-years away, this rogue planet is about 5-10 times more massive than Jupiter and doesn\u2019t orbit a star. It is eating up material from a disc around it and, using ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered that it is now doing so at a rate of six billion tonnes per second \u2013 the fastest ever found for any kind of planet. The team suspects that strong magnetic fields could be funneling material towards the planet, something only seen in stars.<\/p>\n<p>A rogue planet is feasting like a star, rewriting the rules of planetary birth.<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/science-futures\/rogue-planet-spotted-devouring-6-billion-tons-every-second\/\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/science-futures\/rogue-planet-spotted-devouring-6-billion-tons-every-second\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This artist\u2019s impression shows Cha 1107-7626. Located about 620 light-years away, this rogue planet is about 5-10 times more massive than Jupiter and doesn\u2019t orbit a star. It is eating up material from a disc around it and, using ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered that it is now doing so at a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rogue planet spotted devouring 6 billion tons every second&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62157,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62155\/revisions\/62157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}