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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-02-08 07:37 AM
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Baby planet found around star HL Tau
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
02/04/2008


Image from computer simulation of HL Tau and its surrounding disk

A baby planet has been glimpsed by astronomers in a "womb" of dust and debris around a young star.

The embryonic planet, the youngest forming planet ever seen, is destined to grow into a gas giant, like our own Jupiter.

The "protoplanet" was discovered by a British team using radio observatories in the UK, a network in the US and backed by computer simulations.

Today, at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast, Dr Jane Greaves of the University of St Andrews will discuss the discovery. The team studied the disk of gas and rocky particles around the star HL Tau.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/02/eaplanet102.xml
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-02-08 07:40 AM
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-02-08 08:08 AM
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2. Awwww, how cute!
Boy or girl?
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