The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a distant sun-like star.

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Astronomers have discovered a baby planet forming around the star HD 135344B. This planet is sculpting spiral arms in the ...

Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have captured what they say is a direct image of a giant planet actively forming within a swirling disc of gas and dust. The report was released last July 21 ...

Can one witness a new world being born, sculpting its stellar cradle as it emerges out of cosmic dust? In the spinning protoplanetary disc around HD 135344B, 440 light-years away from Earth, ...

Astronomers have discovered a new baby planet, twice the size of Neptune, forming around star HD 135344B, reshaping its surrounding dust disk.

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Betelgeuse, the red supergiant star in Orion’s shoulder, has been an ongoing focus of fascination for millennia, most recently when it darkened significantly, for no immediately obvious reason, in lat ...