Astronomers attend the birth of a planet

These images disseminated by the European Southern Observatory are unique and impressive.

For the first time, astronomers observed and managed to immortalize the birth of a gaseous planet.

On this shot, made by Very Large Telescope of the ESO a clear cloud of gas in which is emerging a planet in formation.

Under the effect of gravity, dust grains, some of which are not thicker than a human hair, will gather around this new planet to make it grow

The capture of this event is unique, as it takes place some 370 light years from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus .

At the head of the team responsible for this rte, Miriam Keppler explains how difficult it is to follow these phenomena "These discs around young stars are the birthplaces of planets, but so far only a handful of observations have detected clues of 'baby planets' around them. The problem is that so far, most of these candidate planets could only be peculiarities of the disc. "

A breathtaking shot!