Astronomers Discover a Baby Planet Less than 1 Million Years Old
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Lucas Cieza is a co-author of the study that began a decade ago and found that astro Elias 2-24 b is less than a million years old; he broke the pre-existing record
Astronomers have confirmed a record-breaking planet: Elias 2-24 b is less than a million years old and is still forming.
Elias 2-24b, a recently discovered Jovian exoplanet of about a million years old, is the youngest exoplanet ever detected to date. Located about 450 light years away from the Earth, it is still buried in the remnants of gas and dust from its protoplanetary disc. This discovery offers a rare overview of [...] This article Elias 2-24b: the youngest exoplanet ever discovered only a million years ago appeared first on Trust My Science.
Astronomers discover a baby planet less than 1 million years old
Astronomers have confirmed Elias 2-24 b as the youngest planet yet detected through high-contrast imaging, in a system no more than about 1 million years old. The planet sits roughly 55 astronomical units from its star inside a prominent disk gap, where earlier ALMA and Very Large Telescope observations had already hinted at a growing world. Its extreme youth and wide orbit challenge models that struggle to build giant planets so far from their …
In collaboration with Il Sole 24 hours we receive and publish the link of the following news. Opinione thanks the publisher for the multimedia partnership. /// He is less than a million years old, is as big as Jupiter and is still growing, immersed in the disk of gas and dust from which he was born. Elias 2-24 b is... Link to [...]
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