A Team of Chilean Astronomers Find the Youngest Exoplanet in the Known Universe: It Is 450 Light Years Away and Has Twice as Much Mass as Jupiter
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A team of Chilean astronomers has identified Elias 2-24 b, an exoplanet less than a million years old. The finding places this gaseous world as the youngest known to date and allows us to observe a difficult stage to capture: the formation of a planet. The research, published in The Astrophysical Journal ... Continue reading "A team of Chilean astronomers finds the youngest exoplanet in the known universe: it is 450 light years away and has twic…
We have confirmed the young exoplanet "Elias 2-24 b," less than one million years old. This provides valuable clues for observing the early stages of planet formation.
About 450 light-years from Earth, a giant planet is being observed during one of the most difficult steps to record in astronomy: its own formation. Baptized from Elias 2-24 b, the youngest exoplanet confirmed to date is less than a million years old and remains immersed in the gas and dust disk that involves...
A planet in formation has just been unveiled within the protoplanetary disc surrounding the young star Elias 2-24. Named Elias 2-24b, it would be the youngest planet ever detected in the Milky Way. An additional discovery plunges us back into the wakes of the planetary formation.
Younger planet already found is less than 1 million years old and can reveal how giant worlds form. Read in the People's Gazette.
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