On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

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A team of astronomers took an actual photo of the first-known baby planet discovered in a gap of a star's protoplanetary disk.

Astronomers have directly imaged WISPIT 2b, a young gas giant forming within a gap of its star's protoplanetary disk. This groundbreaking discovery provides the first direct evidence that these disk ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery by directly observing a young protoplanet, WISPIT 2b, embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk around a young star.