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Newfound ‘Baby’ Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World

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September 16, 2026 • 45 views
Original source: NASA

Astronomers have confirmed a world that’s less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using data from NASA-funded archives. Called Elias 2-24 b, the baby planet is still whirling in its natal disk of dust and gas. “Our planet-formation models already struggled to explain the previous...

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