Dawn of a New Solar System: Watch Planets Begin to Form 1300 Light-Years Away

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary system in its earliest moments — as hot mineral crystals first begin to solidify around a young star called HOPS-315, 1300 light-years from Earth. This is the first time astronomers have observed the very beginnings [...]

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