Astronomers Observe Huge Planet Being Formed - VOA Learning English

The researchers used the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope to find and study the planet. It is a gas giant orbiting an unusually far away young star. Those gases surround a smaller solid core, the innermost part of a planet.

Scientists have recently observed a large planet at an early stage of formation. The planet is already nine times the mass of Jupiter. The researchers used the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Hub… [+3063 chars]

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