VLT Spots Protoplanet and Substellar Object Candidates around Young Stars

Jul 22, 2025 - 14:15
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VLT Spots Protoplanet and Substellar Object Candidates around Young Stars
This image shows a possible substellar companion orbiting the young star V960 Mon. The candidate object was found with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), using its new Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS). The new ERIS data are shown here in orange, overlaid on older images of the dusty disk as seen with the VLT’s SPHERE instrument (yellow) and ALMA (blue). Image credit: ESO / A. Dasgupta / ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / Weber et al.

Two teams of astronomers have detected a protoplanet candidate embedded inside a disk spiral around the young star HD 135344B, as well asa substellar companion candidate (brown dwarf or large planet) around the young star V960 Mon.

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