Gaia Spots Worlds Being Born

Gaia Spots Worlds Being Born
By Mark Thompson (https://ift.tt/4iNmRKr)

ESA’s Gaia space telescope has achieved something astronomers thought nearly impossible, detecting planets while they’re still forming inside the dusty discs surrounding newborn stars. By measuring the subtle gravitational wobbles that unseen companions induce on their host stars, Gaia has found hints of planets, brown dwarfs, and companion stars in 31 young stellar systems out of 98 surveyed.

January 1, 2026 at 07:51AM
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