Hubble finds a new Jupiter-like planet forming in an unusual way: NASA - The Indian Express

The newly forming planet captured by Hubble, called AB Aurigae b, is probably around nine times the size of Jupiter and orbits its host star at a distance two times the distance between our Sun and pluto.

The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through a process that researchers have described as intense and violent. According to NASA, this discovery supports a l… [+2580 chars]

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