by Astronomers have discovered the moment for the first time when planets formed around a sun -like baby star, scientists reported on Wednesday.
The spots of planet formation material are created by Hops-315, a protostar or baby star that is 1,300 light years away from us. A light year is about 5.88 trillion miles.
While astronomers have previously identified a new planetary system in such an early stage, astronomers have previously identified a new planetary system. Minerals in the system around Hops-315 are just beginning to shape.
“We see a system that looks what our solar system looked like when it was just beginning to form,” said co-author Merel van ‘t Hoff, professor at Purdue University, in a press release from European Southern Observatory (ESO).
The observatory combines with the NASA webb world space telescope to identify the minerals that form the new solar system. The researchers turned to data from our own solar system to determine that these minerals show the beginning of a new system. The first solid materials in old meteorites can now be found in the solar system of the earth. These old meteorites contain a mineral called silica oxide, which only forms at extremely high temperatures, like that near a young star.
Scientists were able to identify the formation of silica oxide around Hops-315, which they said they had caught the development of a solar system at an early stage.
“This is the first time that in this early stage of the planet structure outside of our own solar system was observed,” wrote the Planetary Society in a social media contribution about the discovery.
The discovery marks “the birth of the seeds of the planets”, co-author Edwin Bergin, professor at the University of Michigan, told CBS News. The silicate mineral material around HOPS-315 will produce planets after about one million years or so.
“So we watch the beginnings of the construction structure of planets,” said Bergin.
With the discovery, Bergin now know that researchers now know what to look for to find other aspiring systems.
This is Hops-315, a proto star in which astronomers have first recorded evidence of the earliest stages of planet formation/loan: Alma (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al.
The Alma Telescopic network from ESO in Chile has recorded a picture of the still forming planetary system around HOPS-315. In Orange, the picture shows the distribution of carbon monoxide that blow away from Hops-315. Blue shows a narrow silica oxide beam that also radiates away from the baby star.
Astronomers hope that it can help them learn more about the dawn of our solar system.
“This system is one of the best we know that you actually investigate some of the processes in our solar system,” said van ‘t Hoff in a press release.
Hops-315 is much younger than the sun; It is about 100,000 years old, said Bergin.
“So we get a look at the system in its infancy,” said Bergin in an e -mail. “In view of the fact that the sun is 4.6 billion years old, this is a baby star who still wins trade fairs and becomes bigger.”
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