Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our Solar System, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead.
Cha 1107- 7626
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Detection Of Hydrocarbons In The Disk Around An Actively-Accreting Planetary-Mass Object
We present the 0.6–12-micron spectrum of Cha 1107-7626, a 6-10 Jupiter-mass free-floating object in the ∼2 Myr-old Chamaeleon-I star-forming region, from observations with the NIRSpec and MIRI instruments onboard the […]