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Robert Lea

James Webb Space Telescope spots hints of exomoons forming in infant star system

Blurry orange, concentric rings surround a central star in deep space.

Three definitely isn't a crowd for planets around a distant infant star. 

Astronomers had already discovered two planets forming in the disk of gas and dust, or protoplanetary disk, around the infant star PDS 70. Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers with the MIRI mid-infrared Disk Survey (MINDS) project have seen hints of a third world taking shape around the fledgling star located around 400 light-years from Earth. 

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