- A baby planet was just spotted by scientists using the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
- The object, a swirling mass of matter surrounding a central point in space, is believed to be the first in-progress planet spotted by scientists.
- As telescope technology improves, our ability to study and understand what is happening in other star systems will grow.
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Planets don’t just pop out of nowhere. They can form in different ways but one thing is consistent about all of them: All the matter that makes up a planet was, at some point in the past, drifting free of all the other particles that now surround it.
Now, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope have spotted what they think is a planet in the midst of being born. A central point in a swirling mass of dust and gas, it may be the first baby planet ever spotted by humans.
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Astronomers think they just watched a planet be born originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 21 May 2020 at 20:07:40 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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