Circumstellar discs are believed to be key components in planetary formation. However, we have very little actual evidence of planets growing in the rings that surround young stars. So planet formation theorists were ecstatic to learn that two new papers in Astrophysical Journal Letters describe a planet that is actively forming in the gap it most likely created in the ring system of a young, Sun-like star.
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