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In what is possibly the first direct evidence of a planet forming during an "intense and violent" breakup of a disk of swirling gas and dust, a nascent gas giant was spotted a long distance from its host star. A team of astronomers at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory contributed crucial data to the study, which is published in the April 4 issue of Nature ....

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