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“Everything changes when you change your perspective,” writes Spanish creator de Castro in this charming graphic novel debut, which offers two interstellar adventures linked by a formatting twist.

About 620 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon, a strange planet is devouring everything around it at a furious pace. Cha 1107-7626, a “rogue” planet because it doesn’t orbit a star, has ...

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"This is the strongest accretion episode ever recorded for a planetary-mass object." Scientists have identified a lone planet with a ferocious appetite. Located in the Chamaeleon constellation roughly ...

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. The ...

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A young rogue planet about 620 light-years away from Earth has experienced a record-breaking "growth spurt," hoovering up some six billion tons of gas and dust each second over a couple of months. A ...

A mysterious "rogue planet" has been observed gobbling 6 billion tons of gas and dust a second — an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday. Unlike ...