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In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem to the planar magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system with both constant viscosity and constant resistivity but without heat conductivity. Global well-posedness of strong solutions in the presence of natural far field vacuum, due to the finiteness of the mass, is established for any large initial data of suitable smoothness. Density discontinuity and interior vacuum of either point-like or piecewise-like are also allowed. Technically, the entropy-type energy inequality, which although is commonly used as a basic tool in existing literature on the planar MHD system, is not workable in the current paper, as it is not consistent with the far field vacuum. Instead, besides making full use of advantages of the effective viscous flux as in \cite{LJK1DNONHEAT,LIJLIM2022,LIXINADV}, a new coupling structure, between the longitudinal velocity $u$ and the transversal magnetic field $\bm h$, is exploited to recover the dissipative estimate on $\bm h$.