Science Space Deep Space Exoplanets Rogue planet is gobbling up 6.6 billion tons of dust per second The cosmic oddities experience their own growth spurts. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. About 620 light-years from Earth, a gigantic rogue proto-planet is currently devouring 6.6 billion tons of dust and gas per second. Based on recent observations, the relatively new resident of the Chamaeleon constellation isn't stopping anytime soon--and the situation may get even more intense. But according to astronomers, that may be pretty standard behavior for these cosmic objects.

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Researchers have developed a new method to detect rogue planets outside the solar system, worlds that wander their galaxies alone without a parent star. The technique, devised by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientist, Richard K. Barry, unites astronomy's future--in the form of the soon-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope--with its past, a method used by 19th-century astronomers to measure distances. The Contemporaneous LEnsing Parallax and Autonomous TRansient Assay (CLEoPATRA) mission will use parallax to measure distances, but the method will be bolstered by artificial intelligence (AI) developed by Dr. Greg Olmschenk. Olmschenk's program, RApid Machine learnEd Triage (RAMjET), will learn patterns through provided examples filtering out useless information and ensuring that of the millions of stars observed by CLEoPATRA per hour, only useful information is transmitted back to Earth. Recent research published in The Astronomical Journal suggests that exoplanets that exist in the Universe without a parent star could be more common than stars themselves, but until now spotting them has been difficult.