Astronomers Capture First-Ever Photo of a Baby Planet Being Born in Darkness

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Protoplanet WISPIT 2b Artist's IllustrationAstronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring around a young star. Using cutting-edge adaptive optics, the team detected the glowing hydrogen gas streaming onto the infant world, essentially catching it mid-birth. First Detection of a Growing Exoplanet Astronomers have, for the first time, identified [...]
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