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This Newborn Planet Is Carving Out A Home In Its Protoplanetary Disk


We can understand how Earth formed by watching other planets form in distant solar systems. Powerful telescopes like the VLT are making that possible. New observations show a baby planet sculpting patterns in the gas and dust around its star.

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