Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a planetary system that could one day resemble the solar system. The discovery offers scientists a proxy to study how our home planetary system formed around the sun around 4.6 billion years ago.
The team was able to pinpoint the moment specks of material that will one day forge planets began to form around the infant star HOPS-315, located around 1,300 light-years away.
The breakthrough was made possible with data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/ submillimeter Array (ALMA), an array of 66 radio telescopes located in the desert of northern Chile, and observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
https://www.space.com/astronomy/astronomers-witness-the-birth-of-a-planetary-system-for-the-1st-time-photo-video
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Sounds like Silicone Monoxide is the basic building block of planets.
This is just amazing.
It seems like we can see further back in time when we see further away. We’ve seen sunrises on Pluto and stars so distant that we’re seeing their light from millions of years ago reaching our astronomy devices.
I love it.