Scientists Discover 3 Baby Planets Around A New Star That Is 1,000 Times Younger Than The Sun

13 June 2018, 5:24 pm EDT By Steven Lerner Tech Times



Researchers found a trio of new baby planets around a young star. The Atacama Large
Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile was used to find the new planets and star. ( Pixabay )


It is normal that scientists locate planets that are old, but for the first time they have found a trio of planets that are still in the newborn phase.

What Did Scientists Discover In Space?

Scientists have located three baby planets forming around a 4 million-year-old star called HD 163296. It is located in the constellation of sagittarius, roughly 330 light-years away from Earth.

There were two studies about the findings published in June 2018 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The star is roughly 1,000 times younger than the sun. The newborn planets, which are still forming around gas and dust, are roughly the size of Jupiter. Each planet is between 7 billion and 24 billion miles away from the star. It is typically very rare to spot new planets that are being formed.

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Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array

Atacama Desert, Chile

The Atacama Desert is commonly known as the driest nonpolar place in the world



Many more images of this system at:

https://tinyurl.com/yd8o3dz4