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Robert Lea

What are these strange swirls around an infant star? 'We may be watching a planet come into existence in real time'

Three views of the protoplanetary disk of gas and dust around the young star HD 135344B.

Astronomers have seen what appears to be a forming planet carving out a complex pattern in a disk of gas and dust around a young star. The discovery of this spiral architect could help us better understand how planetary systems like the solar system came to be.

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