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This Newborn Planet Is Carving Out A Home In Its Protoplanetary Disk
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This Newborn Planet Is Carving Out A Home In Its Protoplanetary Disk
We can understand how Earth formed by watching other planets form in distant solar systems. Powerful telescopes like the VLT are making that possible. New observations show a baby planet sculpting patterns in the gas and dust around its star.
Astronomers managed to capture unpublished images of the birth of a planet in the young star HD 135344B, located 440 light years away, using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).This new instrument ERIS allowed to observe a protoplanetary disc with spiral arms, where they identified a candidate for planet that shapes its surroundings. [...] The post Scientists capture the birth on planet at 440 light years ap…
A group of astronomers could have captured the formation of a planet reflected in a complex pattern within the gas and dust surrounding their young man.
Researchers believe they've discovered a newborn planet around the star HD 135344B, busily shaping the dust around it. The planet is located about 440 light-years away and is estimated to be twice the size of our Jupiter. The distance between the planet and its parent star—HD […] Want to know more about science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl .
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