For the first time, astronomers may have caught a planet forming in real time, watching as it sculpts the swirling gas and dust around its young host star. Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope, researchers observed a bright signal nestled within a spiral arm of the star HD 135344B’s protoplanetary disc—right where … Read more
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