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New York, SANA- An international team of researchers has observed the moment of the birth of a planet around a star outside our solar system for the first time in history.
For the first time ever, scientists have captured incredible images of an alien star system being born. The image shows the very earliest moments of planet formation, when hot minerals are just beginning to solidify around a distant star, according to a statement published by researchers in the journal Nature.
Initially, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spotted “stuff coming from close to the star, but it wasn’t in the planet-forming region,” study co-author Edwin Bergin, a star formation specialist at the University of Michigan, told Live Science.
The scientists observed the beginnings of planet formation around a star known as/ HOPS-315 /located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, offering a rare glimpse into the early stages of planet formation around stars.
“This is the first time we have been able to observe the first moment a planet begins to form around a star other than our sun,” said lead researcher Melissa McClure from Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Edwin Bergen, a professor at the University of Michigan and co-author of the study, described the event as unprecedented, noting that such processes have never been observed before in any planetary disk outside our solar system.
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