When Planets Grow Like Stars

A planet without a star… that just had a growth spurt. 🌌 In this episode, we explore the discovery of an accretion burst in Cha 1107−7626, a rogue planet floating alone through space. Observations from the VLT and JWST revealed this planetary-mass object guzzling six billion tons of gas and dust per second—behaving more like a young star than a planet. We’ll break down what makes this burst so extraordinary, what it tells us about how planets and stars form, and why rogue worlds might be far more dynamic than we ever imagined.