First-ever image of a planet being born captured
Scientists using one of the world's most powerful planet-hunting instruments at Chile's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have captured the first-ever image of a planet being born approximately 370 light-years from Earth. The PDS 70b planet is estimated to have a surface temperature of around 1000Â°C, cloudy atmosphere, mass a few times that of Jupiter and an orbit equivalent to 118 Earth-years.