Astronomers working on Mauna Kea discuss breakthrough discovery
Published: Jun. 27, 2016 at 2:23 PM HST|Updated: Jun. 27, 2016 at 3:24 PM HST
A team of astronomers at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Maunakea, recently announced a very exciting discovery – a newborn planet bigger than Jupiter that is very close to a young star. This discovery represents for the first time that such bodies can be generated at very early stages of planetary formation.
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