How do gaseous planets form?
Most hypotheses say gas giants are a byproduct of cosmic dust grains in the protoplanetary disk colliding with each other
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Astronomers photograph giant exoplanet in unusual large orbit | Space
May 11, 2021 A giant gas exoplanet in an unusually large orbit has been directly imaged by astronomers via the Young Suns Exoplanet Survey (YSES). It is 20 times as far from its star as Jupiter is from our sun. Direct image of the giant exoplanet YSES 2b (marked as “b”). The star in the middle of the bright dots has been hidden to block its light. Image via ESO/ SPHERE/ VLT/ Bohn et al./ Astronomie.nl. Astronomers have discovered many giant planets, similar to Jupiter or Saturn, orbiting ot...
Danielle Futselaar Franck Marchis Matthew Kenworthy Leiden University Young Suns Exoplanet Survey Alexander Bohn At Leiden University Alexander Bohn
Source: earthsky.org