Astronomers publish the first confirmed image of the planet in formation

The new planet was named PDS 70b by scientists who discovered it

Scientists captured the first confirmed image of a planet in formation. The discovery was made by scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Astronomy in Germany, where they captured the planet forming in the swirling dust of a young dwarf star. One of the most powerful planet hunting instruments on Earth, the SPHERE on the Very Large Telescope of the Southern European Observatory (ESO), has been used to capture the moment.

The planet, named PDS 70b, revolves around a dwarf star. a distance of nearly 370 million light years from Earth. He falls into the constellation Centaurus. The dwarf star, the PDS 70, is less than 10 million years old, while its planet mate is between five and six million years old. In terms of size, however, this infant planet has a mbad that is almost twice the size of Jupiter.

The image was published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics as part of a new research. "These discs are the birthplaces of planets, but so far only a handful of observations have detected clues of baby plants in them," said Miriam Keppler of the Max Planck Institute

Speaking of the discovery of this planet, Keppler says, "The problem is that up to now, most of these candidates on the planet might just have been features in the disc." The advantage of our detection is that we detected [the new planet] with different observation instruments, different filter bands and different years. "

It is located about three billion kilometers from the central star, about the distance between the Sun and Uranus. Since the planet is still in its nascent phases, its surface has not cooled and is at a temperature of about 1000 degrees Celsius, making it hotter than any planet in our solar system.

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