Baby Planets Imaged 370 Light-years Away
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Exoplanet 'baby pictures' reveal exomoons possibly taking shape around infant worlds

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Two infant planets, or "protoplanets," orbit the star PDS 70 , located 370 light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus .
The planets are still surrounded by rings of gas and dust from which moons appear to be taking shape.
The team also observed, for the first time, changes in the brightness of the protoplanets.
Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World , New Scientist , Astronomy Magazine , All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science .
He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics .
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