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Potential Planet Under Construction Revealed By Very Large Telescope Instrument

2025-10-09 16 Dailymotion

A journey across 440 light-years to the young star HD 135344B surrounded by a dust ring featuring the tell-tale fingerprint of a forming planet.

The Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS) instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope may have revealed it.

Credit:
Space.com | ESO/L. Calçada/N. Risinger (Sky Survey)/VMC Survey/Digitized Sky Survey 2/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/N. van der Marel et al./T. Stolker et al./F. Maio et al. | edited by Steve Spaleta