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Astronomers reveal the first-ever photo of 2 planets orbiting a sun-like star, taken from 300 light-years away – Business Insider Australia
Two giant gas planets swing around a star about the same size as our sun 300 light-years away from Earth – and now you can see them doing it.
Two giant gas planets swing around a star about the same size as our sun 300 light-years away from Earth – and now you can see them doing it.
That’s because astronomers have captured the first photo ever of more than one planet orbiting a sun-like star.
The star is just 17 million years old – a mere fraction of our sun’s 4.6 billion years in the cosmos. That makes it a “very young version of our own sun,” Alexander Bohn, a PhD student at Leiden University who led the research team, said in a p…
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