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Six billion tonnes a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate (www.eso.org)
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"(ESO’s VLT) reveals that this free-floating planet is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of six billion tonnes a second. This is the strongest growth rate ever recorded for a rogue planet, or a planet of any kind...."

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[–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

why do we spend money on something so far away

I suppose for the same reason we spend so much money to gather intelligence on foreign countries. And besides 'black holes' there are a lot of 'rogue planets' out there. They're are being spotted as we've recently gotten a new wave of much better telescopes.

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