Discovery Alert: ‘Baby’ Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time! – NASA Science
WISPIT 2b Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star. While theorists have thought that planets likely exist in these gaps (and possibly even create them), this is the first time that it has actually been observed. Researchers have directly detected – … Read more