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Artist's illustration of exoplanets PDS 70 b and c

This artist's illustration shows two gas giant exoplanets orbiting the young star PDS 70. These planets are still growing by accreting material from a surrounding disk. In the process, they have gravitationally carved out a large gap in the disk. The gap extends from distances eq...

Date
Jan 1, 2019
Mission
Hubble Space Telescope
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hubblesite-images-2019-26-4488-image
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This artist's illustration shows two gas giant exoplanets orbiting the young star PDS 70. These planets are still growing by accreting material from a surrounding disk. In the process, they have gravitationally carved out a large gap in the disk. The gap extends from distances equivalent to the orbits of Uranus and Neptune in our solar system.

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J. Olmsted (STScI)

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