Hubble finds a planet forming in an unconventional way - EurekAlert

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an "intense and violent process." This discovery supports a long-debated theory for how planets like Jupiter form, call…
image: Researchers were able to directly image newly forming exoplanet AB Aurigae b over a 13-year span using Hubbles Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and its Near Infrared Camera and Mult… [+5597 chars] Read More