Post #4341 651 Aug 29, 2025, 06:15 UTC Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar AnalogSource: Sci.News@EverythingScience Sci.News Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar Analog Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk around WISPIT 2 (TYC 5709-354-1). 🤯 3