Disk of gas observed around what might be youngest exoplanet yet discovered - The Independent

8/9/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 8 months ago
by Jon Kelvey
by Jon Kelvey
A Jupiter-mass exoplanet could be the youngest yet discovered, and scientists just observed a disk of gas that could birth the planet’s first moon or moons
Scientists have, for the first time, observed a disk of gas around a young and distant exoplanet. The torus of material orbiting the planet is known as a circumplantery disk, and could one day form m… [+1715 chars]
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