An international team of scientists has discovered a young planet — just 5 or 6 million years old — forging its own path through space and likely growing along the way.
The scientists captured a photograph, which they say is the very first direct image of the birth of a planet still forming around a star.
It’s a major finding for those of us on Earth, a 4.5-billion-year-old planet.
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