The Very Large Telescope has been used to capture the birth of a planet around a star for the first time. Astronomers have long thought that planets grow through accretion of dust collected around stars – and this series of photographs shows this in action, giving us further evidence of the way our own solar system formed.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/02/625299978/scientists-capture-first-birth-of-a-planet
Photographs of a young planet orbiting a star provide useful information about how planets form and grow.