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James Webb Space Telescope detects hints of outer moons forming in baby star system

Three is definitely not a crowd for planets around a distant baby star. Astronomers had already discovered two planets forming in the disk, or protoplanetary disk, of gas and dust around the baby star PDS 70. Now, astronomers with the MIRI Mid-Infrared Disc Survey (MINDS) Project using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have seen… Read More »

NASA’s TESS telescope detects 6 exoplanets around ‘misbehaving’ toddler star

Astronomers have discovered a rare system of six young planets and a possible seventh planet dancing around a misbehaving baby star. Not only will this system provide much-needed information about how planets form and develop around a baby star, but its similarity to the solar system may provide astronomers with a snapshot of what our… Read More »