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Astronomers find planetary maternity ward, 520 light-years from Earth and watch as a planet is born

Firstpost | 21/05/2020 09:47 PM | Click to read full article

Astronomers have gazed into what appears to be a planetary maternity ward, observing for the first time within a huge disk of dense gas and dust surrounding a newly formed star a planet in the process of being born. This large young planet is forming around a star called AB Aurigae that is about 2.4 times the mass of the sun and located in our Milky Way galaxy 520 light-years from Earth

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