OTS 44 is a young, free-floating planetary-mass brown dwarf and rogue planet, located 520 to 630 light-years (160 to 192 parsecs) away in the star-forming molecular cloud Chamaeleon I in the constellation Chamaeleon. It is surrounded by a circumstellar disk of gas and dust, from which it is actively accreting mass at an approximate rate of 500 billion kilograms per second (or equivalently, 7.6×10−12 solar masses per year).
OTS 44 is a young, free-floating planetary-mass brown dwarf and rogue planet, located 520 to 630 light-years (160 to 192 parsecs) away in the star-forming molecular cloud Chamaeleon I in the constellation Chamaeleon. It is surrounded by a circumstellar disk of gas and dust, from which it is actively accreting mass at an approximate rate of 500 billion kilograms per second (or equivalently, 7.6×10−12 solar masses per year).
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