With Very Large Telescope, astronomers spy a planet being born around a young star

Thursday, July 5, 2018 - 18:07 in Astronomy & Space

An international team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile has captured a snapshot of a planet forming in the middle of the disc of gas and dust around its young star. The system of dwarf star PDS 70, described in two papers published in the journal Astronomy...

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