Astronomers have now made the first observations of a moon-forming disk around the planet in a star system 370 light-years away
The story of exoplanet PDS 70 c, the focus of the first confirmed image of a newborn planet still forming in our galaxy, becomes curioser and curioser.
. Last month, astronomers photographed PDS 70 c and another exoplanet, PDS 70 b, discovering that two juvenile exoplanets are still growing as they orbit the young star PDS 70. This is only the second system with more than one planet to be captured in an image. The star is 6 million years old. PDS 70 is smaller and less massive than our sun, and it's still gathering material. Around the star, there's a large disk made of gas and dust.
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