Astronomers Reveal The Youngest Baby Planet Structures We’ve Ever Seen – ScienceAlert

Stars are born as dense clouds of interstellar material collapse under their own gravity, spinning into flat discs that eventually spool into baby stars. Now, for the first time, hints of planet formation have been detected around a protostar so young, the cloud of leftover dust and gas is still collapsing into it, and the disc still forming.
This is the earliest detection of such structures in a protostellar ring, and it suggests that planet formation starts earlier than we thought, before the…

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