Astronomers are amazed to have discovered a baby exoplanet gobbling up matter around an infant star like a planetary Pac-Man.

Astronomers have detected a young, massive planet, WISPIT 2b, within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, offering an unprecedented view into planet formation. This gas giant, five times bigger than ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The baby exoplanet WISPIT 2b appears as a small purple dot beside a bright white dust ring ...

A University of Arizona-led team discovered a growing planet, WISPIT 2b, forming inside a disk gap around a young star. The finding confirms theories that protoplanets carve out gaps in disks of gas ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand-new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter. The growing planet, named WISPIT 2b, is estimated to be about ...

Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star. While theorists have thought that planets likely exist in these gaps ...

The planet, named WISPIT 2b, is a gas giant about five times the mass of Jupiter and only around five million years old, which makes it a cosmic infant compared with our 4.6 billion year old solar ...

THE unexpected detection of a new planet has been hailed as a “remarkable discovery” by Irish astronomers who were involved in its identification. The newly spotted planet, named WISPIT 2b, is ...

WISPIT 2 system captured by Magellan Telescope in Chile and Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have directly imaged a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming ...

Austin (KXAN) — A tiny baby planet is making waves in the science community. Named WISPIT 2b, the growing planet is the first planet of its kind to be basically photographed growing inside its star’s ...

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