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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
esoastronomy ("ESO") wrote:

🚨 Astronomers have witnessed the dawn of a new solar system!

Using ALMA and JWST they observed the first specks of planet-forming material — hot minerals beginning to solidify around HOPS-315, a baby star 1300 light-years away.

This marks the first time a planetary system has been identified at such an early stage in its formation – a window to the past of our own Solar System.

https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2512a/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

📷 ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al

A telescopic image showing an orange butterfly-shaped nebula with a bright core and fainter wings. A narrow blue jet emerges from the central core and extends into the wings of the bigger nebula.