A spiral marks the spot where a baby planet is forming around a star in a young system 520 light-years from Earth in the Auriga constellation.
The planet birth is visible in new images and observations made by astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.AB Aurigae is a young star in the constellation symbolizing the celestial charioteer. It's surrounded by a thick disk made of cold gas and dust. When these come together in clumps, they're the right ingredients to make a planet. Within that disk is a spiral feature that suggests a baby planet is indeed forming in the disk.
Capturing the"twist" in the disk was key for astronomers during this observation. The spiral is essentially the baby planet kicking the gas in the disk and causing"disturbances in the [disk] in the form of a wave, somewhat like the wake of a boat on a lake," said Emmanuel Di Folco, study coauthor and astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Laboratory of Bordeaux in France.
Boccaletti and an international team of astronomers followed up on this by aiming the SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile at the star, creating the deepest images of the young star system yet. Thanks to SPHERE's capabilities, the researchers were able to see light from the inner disk illuminating small dust grains. The observations revealed the spiral arms detected by ALMA as well as the signature twist detailed in the new study signifying a baby planet.
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