A very hungry planet! 馃獝
That little dot is WISPIT 2b, a newborn exoplanet. About 5 times the mass of Jupiter, the planet is eating its way through its dusty cradle as it orbits the host star, a younger version of our Sun 馃尀
Taken with ESO鈥檚 Very Large Telescope (VLT) in #Chile, this image is the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2534a/
馃摲 ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.
