Exoplanet In A Ring Gap Shows How Protoplanets Can Shape Their Environment

Exoplanet In A Ring Gap Shows How Protoplanets Can Shape Their Environment
By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/BsqoErW)

Circumstellar discs are believed to be key components in planetary formation. However, we have very little actual evidence of planets growing in the “rings” that surround young stars. So planet formation theorists were ecstatic to learn that two new papers in Astrophysical Journal Letters describe a planet that is actively forming in the gap it most likely created in the ring system of a young, Sun-like star.

September 8, 2025 at 04:54PM
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