Witnessing the birth of planets: Webb telescope provides unprecedented view into PDS 70 system
Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...
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'Like a family photo of our solar system': The James Webb telescope is watching 2 alien planets being born before our eyes
PDS 70 is an orange dwarf star about 370 light-years away and hosts two young, growing planets: PDS 70b and PDS 70c. The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of ...
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Webb finds hints of a third planet at PDS 70
Using data obtained by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), astronomers with the MIRI mid-INfrared Disk Survey (MINDS) survey recently studied a very young variable star (PDS 70) about 370 light ...
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Exoplanet’s atmosphere unexpectedly differs from its birthplace
The disc surrounds an exoplanet dubbed PDS 70c, one of two gas giants similar in size and mass to Jupiter that orbit the star PDS 70 nearly 400 light years from our ...
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Rocky planets could harbour water already at birth
The JWST/MIRI data indicate a substantial reservoir of water in the central region of a planet-forming disk of gas and dust around the young star PDS 70, where Earth-like planets may be forming.
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Canadian-led study sheds new light on planets forming in 'cosmic nursery'
The planets developed in the space between PDS 70 and its "pancake-like ring" of gas and dust known as a protoplanetary disk, he said. Blakely said the young planets were discovered about five ...