With Very Large Telescope, astronomers spy a planet being born around a young star

An international team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile has captured a snapshot of a planet forming in the middle of the disc of gas and dust around its young star.The system of dwarf star PDS 70, described intwopapers published in the journal Astronomy...

Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - July 3, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Amina Khan Source Type: news