Journey to Rogue Planet Cha 1107-7626 in Chamaeleon | ESO
This video zooms in on Cha 1107-7626, located about 620 light-years away in the constellation Chamaeleon. This rogue planet is 5-10 times more massive than Jupiter and doesn’t orbit a star.
The video combines images taken with telescopes at unique times and wavelengths. It begins with a wide view of the night sky in visible light. As we zoom in, we switch to an infrared view taken with European Southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). Finally, we show an artist’s animation of the planet, which is eating up gas and dust from a disc around it. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found this is now happening at a rate of about 6 billion tonnes per second.
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: Oct. 2, 2025
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