Protoplanet
Discovery Alert: ‘Baby’ Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time!
Discovery Alert: ‘Baby’ Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time! Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star, marking the first time a planet has been directly observed in one of these gaps. The protoplanet WISPIT 2b […]
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Team snaps pic of baby planet growing outside our solar system
Team snaps pic of baby planet growing outside our solar system A team of astronomers has detected for the first time a growing planet outside our solar system, embedded in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed disk of dust and gas. The discovery was made using the University of Arizona’s MagAO-X extreme adaptive optics system […]
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