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Showing posts with label directly observed a planet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label directly observed a planet. Show all posts

Friday, March 8, 2013

Astronomers, first time directly observed a planet


An international Astronomers team lead by Sascha Quanz from ETH Zurich in Switzerland examined the gas and dust disk around the young star HD 100546, which is located at a distance of only 335 light years in relative closeness to our solar system. The researchers were surprised when they found evidence of a planet that - surrounded in the disk of theme around the young star - is still in the development process. This possible planet would be a gas giant similar to Jupiter in our solar system.