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For the first time in the history of science, astronomers have recorded an emerging new planet. Such a rare discovery was made as part of projects “DISK” and “SHINE” for the study of young stars.
The authors of the unique find were specialists of the European Southern observatories using the “Very Large Telescope” – a complex of four powerful optical telescopes located on Chilean Mount Cerro Paranal. Scientists say that the “newborn” planet is approximately 370 light years from us and is part of the planetary system around stars “PDS 70” in the constellation Centaurus.
The distance between this variable star and the new planet roughly corresponds to the distance between the Sun and Uranus, amounting to about 2.9 billion kilometers. Image analysis emerging from the protoplanetary disk of a celestial body shows that its mass exceeds that of Jupiter, and the temperature on it surface reaches 1000 degrees Celsius. European scientists doubt that life can exist there, especially on this reasonable stage, however note the high importance of direct observation Behind an emerging planet, giving astronomers huge luggage of new knowledge of space and the universe as a whole.
