Seeing a newborn planet sculpting its dust disk for the first time
A swirl of gas and dust orbits a young star named HD 135344B, 440 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. Inside that haze, astronomers have spotted telltale spirals that most theories link to the tug of a growing world. Now, fresh images from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) point to a compact […]










