Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have gotten a rare look at a young, Jupiter-sized planet that is growing by feeding off material surrounding a young star 370 light years from Earth. “We just don’t know very much about how giant planets grow,” says Brendan Bowler, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. “This is the youngest bona fide planet Hubble has ever directly imaged.” “This planetary system gives us the first opportunity to witness material falling onto a planet. Our results open up a new area for this research.” Though more than 4,000 exoplanets have been cataloged, only about 15 have been directly photographed by telescopes. And the planets are so far away and small that they simply look like dots even in the best photos. The team’s fresh technique for using Hubble to directly image this planet paves a new route for further exoplanet research, especially during a planet’s formative years.