Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a newborn planet with a mass similar to the planet Jupiter. A newly released image and video of an exoplanet or exoplanet shows how its orbital motion creates a vacuum in the disk of gas and dust surrounding its young parent star HD 169142. spiral track created by rearranging the material in this disk during its trajectory, such as the track left by a boat while sailing through water.

This thin, circular cloud of material is known as the protoplanetary disk, and in such structures cold, dense clusters collapse under their own gravity onto their natal planets. It has become known to scientists The protoplanetary disk around HD 169142 is divided into three separate rings, and the gaps between these rings are explained by the presence of young, newly formed planets or “protoplanets.”

About 4.6 billion years ago, our star (the Sun) was surrounded by a protoplanetary disk similar to that seen around HD 169142; this disk eventually collapsed forming the planets of the Solar System, including Earth. This makes the study of protoplanetary disks, newborn stars, and young planets such as those in this system essential to understanding the processes that gave rise to our planetary system and Earth itself.

Astronomers have been observing the environment around HD 169142 for several years using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), one of the most advanced optical telescopes on the planet, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. In particular, the astronomers made detailed observations of the system using the spectro-polarimetric high-contrast Exoplanet REsearch VLT or SPHERE instrument.

A team of scientists led by Monash University researcher Ian Hammond was finally able to confirm the existence of this protoplanet during a reanalysis of ancient SPHERE data. The Jupiter-sized earth orbits HD 169142 at a distance slightly greater than the distance between the Sun and the icy giant Neptune, the seventh planet in the Solar System.

The SPHERE instrument was specifically designed to observe features such as the trailing void caused by the orbit of a baby planet, in addition to other features caused by the growth of gas, dust and rock clumps around potential host stars. To do this, SPHERE blocks light from the central star at the center of the protoplanetary disk, increasing the contrast of the resulting images and correcting the blurring caused by atmospheric turbulence to improve resolution.