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Cose-up view of the moon-forming disk surrounding PDS 70c, a young Jupiter-like planet nearly 400 light-years away
(ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Benisty et al)
Astronomers have spotted a moon-forming disc around a planet outside of our solar system.
It is the first time that scientists can be sure they have seen such a disc – which could be forming new satellites around its host world – around an exoplanet.
The new findings could help show how moons and planets are able to form in solar systems when they are still young. That process still remains largely mysterious to scientists.