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Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar Analog

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Aug 27, 2025 - 12:15
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Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar Analog
This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, is the first clear detection of a protoplanet in a disk with multiple rings. Image credit: ESO / van Capelleveen et al.

Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk around WISPIT 2 (TYC 5709-354-1).

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