A photo from open sources
Until today, planet formation has only been studied with using computer models. Fox News reports that perhaps for the first time in human history, scientists were able to photograph the process of planet formation in the orbit of one of stars closest to Earth.
A photo from open sources
© ESO / NASA / ESA / ARDILA ET AL. Snapshot demonstrating the formation of a giant planet was made owned by the European Southern Observatory Very large telescope (VLT) located in Chile. In the photo you can see a blurry drop “embedded” in the disk of gas and dust around the young stars HD 100546. The probability that the captured the object is a newborn giant gas planet, similar in structure to Jupiter. “Until today, the formation planets were studied only with the help of computer models, “- explains team leader, astronomer Sasha Kwanz from Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich. “If detected us the phenomenon is really an emerging planet, then for the first time in the history of astronomy, scientists will be able to study the process planet formation and the interaction of the forming celestial body and its environment on a real example and from the earliest stages. “The star HD 100546 is located at a distance of 335 light years from Earth. An emerging gas planet is located on it from a distance of about 70 times greater than the distance from ours planet to the sun.
