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Direct confirmation of two baby planets forming around a young, sun-like star
- March 27, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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As the number of exoplanet detections has breached 6,000 and continues to grow, scientists are finding a wide variety of different solar system architectures. Critical to understanding how these architectures take shape is finding young planets forming around very young stars. In 2025, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a planet about five times more massive than Jupiter around a star that's very much a younger version of our sun.
Originally published at Phys.org