https://mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/115094481189545864 esoastronomy@mastodon.social - A very hungry planet! 🪐
That little dot is WISPIT 2b, a newborn exoplanet. About 5 times the mass of Jupiter, the planet is eating its way through its dusty cradle as it orbits the host star, a younger version of our Sun 🌞
Taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in #Chile, this image is the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/
📷 ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.
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That little dot is WISPIT 2b, a newborn exoplanet. About 5 times the mass of Jupiter, the planet is eating its way through its dusty cradle as it orbits the host star, a younger version of our Sun 🌞
Taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in #Chile, this image is the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/
📷 ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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