Fly 5000 light-years to a young star system that could be forming planets | 4K zoom-in

Young star V960 Mon has been captured by the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch (SPHERE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The blue region in the imag e was captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Full Story: https://www.space.com/planet-forming-young-star-gas-giants

"Dusty material with potential to form planets surrounds the star," according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

Credit: Space.com | zoom in courtesy: ESO, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Weber et al. | edited by Steve Spaleta (https://twitter.com/stevespaleta)

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