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First Images Ever Taken of a Planet Being Formed, 450 Light-Years From Earth (sydney.edu.au)

Posted by Soulskill on from the this-planet-is-under-construction dept.

Zothecula writes: Of the many new exoplanets discovered over the past two decades, all have been identified as established, older planets – none have been acknowledged as newly-forming protoplanets. Now scientists working at the Keck observatory have spied just such a planet in the constellation of Taurus, some 450 light-years from Earth (abstract), that is only just beginning its life, collecting matter and spinning into a brand new world.

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  1. Taurus? by Nidi62 · · Score: 2

    Just please don't send some ships out there to investigate it. While pocket lasers would be cool, we really don't need a millenia-long interstellar war.

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  2. Science! by sjbe · · Score: 2

    I didn't see any shit, only a few dots, and some drawen animation, you call that sience ?

    No we call it science.