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Astronomers spot moon-forming disc around an exoplanet for the first ever time

Don t show me this message again✕ 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.

Astronomers spy first moon-forming disk around an exoplanet

(CNN)  For the first time, astronomers have found a disk around a Jupiter-like planet outside of our solar system  the kind of disk where moons could actively be forming. The disk, known as a circumplanetary disk, was discovered around an exoplanet known as PDS 70c. It s one of two massive planets similar to Jupiter that orbit a star 400 light-years from Earth. An international group of astronomers found the disk while observing the planetary system with ALMA, or the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array of telescopes in Chile. The diameter of the disk is large enough that it spans the distance from Earth to the sun and it contains enough mass to form as many as three satellites the size of our moon. The disk is 500 times larger than the massive rings around Saturn.

Astronomers make first clear detection of a moon-forming disc around an exoplanet

Astronomers make first clear detection of a moon-forming disc around an exoplanet
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