The circumstellar disk around PDS 70

 

Paul Byrne

@ThePlanetaryGuy

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See that ring? That's the circumstellar disk around PDS 70, a star 370 light-years from Earth. And that bright spot to the right is a new planet being born—a planet the size of Jupiter. Which has its own circumplanetary disk... where moons are being born.