Scientists watch a solar system being born for the first ever time
Scientists witness birth of solar system in unique spectacle
- Scientists have for the first time observed a solar system in the earliest stages of its formation.
- Using a powerful telescope, researchers witnessed the initial material clumping together to form planets.
- This breakthrough offers new insights into how solar systems, including our own, develop.
- The nascent system is forming around HOPS-315, a young star approximately 1300 light-years from Earth.
- The observations captured the very beginning of planet formation within the star's protoplanetary disc.