Here is a bit more background on this newly forming planet and its name:
Researchers from the US and Australia observed the phenomenon taking place in the solar system surrounding a star called LkCa 15, located 450 light-years away from Earth. Catching a planet in the making is an exciting first for astronomers because, of the nearly 2,000 exoplanets we’ve so far identified, none are in the process of formation.
The findings, published in Nature, describe how LkCa15 is surrounded by a special kind of protoplanetary disk, which forms around young stars from the debris that remains after the star has itself formed. The researchers’ hypothesis – now supported by their images – is that planets form inside the disk, accreting together from the debris and dust.
This will likely hold valuable evidence relating to our own solar system and understanding how some of our planets formed.
thanks to sciencealert.com for the great info
thanks to NASA for the pic
Eventually.
Jay Hovnanian
Sure you did.
Can someone please run and get Hawking so that he sees it didn’t come from nothing???
Well, considering the vast amount of time, and space, created by the Big Bang…
It only makes sense that there are millions upon millions of star systems AND planetary objects forming as I write this.
This is the tip of the interstellar iceberg.
You complete moron.
Go away, you’re too stupid to post on this page!
What an absolutely idiotic, undereducated and uninformed thing to say.
How can anyone this dumb support Bernie?
I would say you’ve mistaken my humor. Sad for you.
Echoe LaCaille
My apologies, sarcasm/humor rarely translates on them Interwebs.
If the Big Bang is in fact true I wonder why we haven’t seen proof of say another Big Bang what would make only one Big Bang why the anomoly you know?
Bobby Vaughn
Read up on “Bubble Universes in hyper space.”
There may in fact be as many universes as there are stars in our entire universe.
Now, proving it is another matter entirely.
We are the “Who’s” which Horton heard.
We are unimaginably small in the grand scheme.
Well obviously not ever
So, this would suggest. Our little star is indeed from a near by stellar nursery? I mean 450 light years, is very close? At least universally.
How do they know….it takes millions of years and some never actually form….