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Scientists Capture First Birth Of A Planet

Scientists Capture First Birth Of A Planet

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.
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Photographs of a young planet orbiting a star provide useful information about how planets form and grow.

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2018-07-03

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