A new solar system is discovered

The birth of two planets has been observed around a very young star, called Wispit 2, which is located about 400 light-years away.

The discovery was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and is attributed to a team of researchers led by Chloe Lawlor from the University of Galway in Ireland. They used the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

According to Lawlor, to date Wispit 2 is "the best view we've ever had of our past."

This forming planetary system is similar to how our Solar System looked about 5 billion years ago, when the Sun was still surrounded by a disk of gas and dust and the planets were just forming.

A very rare system

After the PDS 70 system, discovered in 2018, Wispit 2 is only the second planetary system to be observed at this early stage.

But unlike PDS 70, this system has a more complex structure, with visible rings and empty spaces.

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