Astronomers Reported The Very First Image Of A Baby Planet Being Formed
Astronomers have said that they have captured the first confirmed image of the baby planet formed in the dust, roaming around a young star. A few days back, Scientists said that the planet appears as a bright spot in the photograph using the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile . Credit: newsmax.com From Max Planck Institute of Astronomy in Germany, Miriam Kepler said that signs of infant planets were detected earlier , but astronomers were not sure whether they could easily be observed in winding dust. Credit: vox-cdn.com Also Read: INDIAN SCIENTISTS DISCOVER PLANETS AROUND STARS “These disks around young stars are the birthplaces of planets, but so far only a handful of observations have detected hints of baby planets in them,” Miriam Keppler said in a statement. “The problem is that, until now, most of these planet candidates could just have been features in the disk.” Scientists have described the planet located about 3 ...