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Using radio observatories in the UK and US and computer simulations, a team of astronomers have identified the youngest forming planet yet seen. Dr Richards adds, “The new object, designated HL Tau b, is the youngest planetary object ever seen and is just 1 percent as old as the young planet found in orbit around the star TW Hydrae that made the news last year. HL Tau b gives a unique view of how planets take shape, because the VLA image also shows the parent disk material from which it formed.”

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23 responses // Youngest planet ever discovered!

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    Wow. Too bad none of us will be around to see the end effect of this planet when it formation is completed.

    It looks like there are a lot more "eyes" watching the heavens nowadays.
    Tomcatt
  • So pretty. Ain't kids cute?
    ksimpson
  • It is the first picture of a protoplanet still embed in it's birth material, awe how sweet, just straight out of the womb, with the placenta and umbilical cord still around.

    A planet in the making.
    jade_azul16
  • This is cool can help us big time in figuring out about our planet.
    Not_Doody
  • Jade_azul, when you say it like that it does sound absolutely adorable :)
    brylou01
  • Does every planet being born look like my shower drain?
    yonie
  • Wow - 14 times bigger than Jupiter!
    Ando_SB
  • Does staring at a planet really help us with the issues of today? I think we are just blowing some of our taxpayers money on useless observations.
    mr_jaron2u
  • They need to find a new planet we can live on after we destroy this one :)
    Swiyyah
  • awwwww, he's just a little guy
    Robijnson
  • http://current.com/items/88872217_discovery_in_planet_s...
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    Well in related Solar system & planet news, check out this Current.com thread about how a discovery in another planet's atmosphere could mean there is other life out there!
    woodywoodbeck
  • http://www.current.com/items/88886427_work_habits_of_hi...
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    well, actually mr_jaron staring at a planet, or at the horizon are actually pretty healthy habits...

    just check out this other post
    jade_azul16
  • What is it with children's names these days? Mars, Venus, Saturn, all great names. HL Tau b? Come on!
    AceHardchester
  • If you wait long enough, today's problems just become yesterday's mistakes.
    dndobson
  • I'm with Ace on this one....
    This planet needs a much better name!!!
    BetterWatching
  • as cool as this is, im sad i'll never be able to see how it turns out! in saying that im sure this will give some valuable insight to how our planet was made and perhaps how to preserve it...if we make it that long, after all, this is a very long process
    alman365
  • Wut a kwoot wittle baby!! Who's a kwoot wittle planet? That's wight, you are!
    VSiskos
  • If the human race is going to survive, we are going to have to find other suitable planets to live on. We are quickly reaching the point where our population can double in 10 years. Already there are many programs in place for population control. The biggest of these is war, the second is disease, and the third is drugs.
    jubal
  • I don't think the observations are any waste of time when "enquiring minds want to know" after all =) but I always wonder about these unquestionable "computer simulations." I mean, aren't they only as smart as the imagination of the small group of people who program them? And don't they always come back from having "physically" seen something with "wow! we we're amazed this and that exceeded our best 'computer modeled' guestimations! We need more data!" =D hehe ...invariably. And yet these press releases always sounds so sternly bottom-line "this is it." tsk

    I remember some scientist saying it was a good thing they never actually charted a course *through* the rings of saturn because it wasn't what they *thought* it was...and they only discovered that too late. hmmm... good thing for serendipity, huh?
    echoz
  • I find it strange that some people could care less about space exploration. Ditto with what Jubal said. Taxes, poverty, disease and the lot of our humanoid issues won't be issues if we have no planet, which we can no longer deny seeing as the planet is falling apart right in front of our very eyes.
    Neghie
  • i believe the biggest planet ever is waleeds teeth
    astonv1
  • what my names waleed im going to kick your ass
    astonv1
    prikster
  • if you think i am talking to you then you must be a prikster
    astonv1

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