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Observing the birth of a planet
Astronomers at ETH Zurich have confirmed the existence of a young giant gas planet still embedded in the midst of the disk of gas and dust surrounding its parent star. For the first time, scientists are able to directly study the formation of a planet at a very early stage.
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Incredibly cool. Always blows my mind to think that we will literally have lifetimes to study this planet while it is still at this one phase of development, since this stuff takes so many millions of years.