Astronomers Spot a Planet Forming Around a Young Star

Planet WISPIT 2b in Aquila

Planet WISPIT 2b in Aquila | European Southern ObservatoryWhat is that yellow spot? It is a young planet outside our Solar System. This image from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile surprisingly captures a distant scene much like our own Solar System's birth, around 4.5 billion years ago. Although we cannot look into the past and see Earth's formation directly, telescopes let us watch similar processes unfolding around distant stars. At the…

Unexpected Discovery Of Planet In Formation Around A Young Star

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a new planet. Detected at an early stage of formation around a young analog of our own Sun, the planet is estimated to be about 5 million years-old and most likely […]

New Planet Found at Just 5 Million Years Old

What can young planets teach astronomers about the formation and evolution of planets throughout the cosmos? This is what two studies published in The Astr

Unexpected Discovery Of A Planet Forming Around A Young Star - Astrobiology

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a new planet. Detected at an early stage of formation around a young analog of our own Sun, the planet is estimated to be about 5 million years-old and most likely a gas giant of similar size […] The post Unexpected Discovery Of A Planet Forming Around A Young Star appeared first on Astrobiology.

Astronomers Spot a Planet Forming Around a Young Star

Detected at an early stage of formation around a young analog of our own Sun, the planet is estimated to be about 5 million years-old.