Jun 14

New star has three infant planets growing around it

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Scientists have been studying a distant exoplanet that is very young. The star is called HD 163296 and is about 330 light years from our solar system. The star is a scant 4 million years old, an infant by astronomical standards. The star is in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. Observations have been made using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter … Continue reading

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