02 July 2018
Baby planet in dusty disc finally caught on camera
...surrounding its host star. The young planet, known as PDS 70b, was found as part of two survey programmes called SHINE...wavelengths of light streaming from the protoplanet to help infer that PDS 70b has a cloudy atmosphere. “Keppler’s results give us a...
23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
...in the research. The same cannot be said for PDS 70c’s companion, PDS 70b, though. PDS 70b is closer in and orbits about the same distance ...from our Sun, but the new ALMA observations indicate that PDS 70b does not show clear evidence of such a disk, ...
