# Scientists Capture First Birth Of A Planet

https://blog.cynexia.com/scientists-capture-first-birth-of-a-planet

Author: [Rob Aleck](https://blog.cynexia.com/pages/about) · https://github.com/mnbf9rca · https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaleck/ · https://family-foqos.app/

Published: 2018-07-03
Categories: LinkedIn cross-post


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](<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.