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Joseph Malcomson

Baby Neptune-like exoplanet found via a strange new astronomical technique


A new technique for discovering baby planets yields promising results, according to a new paper in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Astronomers with the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian report the detection of a unique signature of dust emission in a ring around a distant star in its infancy — evidence, they are convinced, of the presence of a baby planet about the size of Neptune.

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