This is the first-ever confirmed image of a newborn planet

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Using a specialized planet-hunting instrument aboard European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany has captured a spectacular image of a planet forming around a dwarf star, visible as a bright spot in the picture above. The newborn planet has been named PDS 70b and as per the astronomy team that discovered it, it is a giant gas planet with a mass several time that of Jupiter and has a temperature of around 1000 degrees Celsius.

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What a picttuuureeeee...

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