{"id":7611,"date":"2025-07-21T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=7611"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:37:47","slug":"for-the-first-time-astronomers-witness-the-dawn-of-a-new-solar-system-eso-press-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/for-the-first-time-astronomers-witness-the-dawn-of-a-new-solar-system-eso-press-release-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers witness newborn planet sculpting the dust around it &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that surrounds its young host star. Using ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), they observed a planetary disc with prominent spiral arms, finding clear signs of a planet nestled in its inner regions. This is the first time astronomers have detected a planet candidate embedded inside a disc spiral &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2513\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1226\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eso2513-ENG.png\" alt=\"The image to the left, taken with ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows a possible planet being born around the young star HD 135344B. This star, located around 440 light-years away, is surrounded by a disc of dust and gas with prominent spiral arms. Theory predicts that planets can sculpt spiral arms like these, and the new planet candidate is located at the base of one of the arms, just as expected. \n\nThe image was captured with a new VLT instrument: the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS). The central black circle corresponds to a coronagraph \u2013\u2013 a device that blocks the light of the star to reveal faint details around it. The white circle indicates the location of the planet. \n\nThe image to the right is a combination of previous observations taken with the SPHERE instrument also at the VLT (red) and the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA, orange and blue). These and other previous studies of HD 135344B did not find signatures of a companion, but ERIS may have finally unveiled the culprit responsible for the star\u2019s spiral disc - Crediti: ESO\/F. Maio et al.\/T. Stolker et al.\/ ALMA (ESO\/NAOJ\/NRAO)\/N. van der Marel et al.\" class=\"wp-image-7616\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The image to the left, taken with ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows a possible planet being born around the young star HD 135344B. This star, located around 440 light-years away, is surrounded by a disc of dust and gas with prominent spiral arms. Theory predicts that planets can sculpt spiral arms like these, and the new planet candidate is located at the base of one of the arms, just as expected. \n\nThe image was captured with a new VLT instrument: the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS). The central black circle corresponds to a coronagraph \u2013\u2013 a device that blocks the light of the star to reveal faint details around it. The white circle indicates the location of the planet. \n\nThe image to the right is a combination of previous observations taken with the SPHERE instrument also at the VLT (red) and the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA, orange and blue). These and other previous studies of HD 135344B did not find signatures of a companion, but ERIS may have finally unveiled the culprit responsible for the star\u2019s spiral disc &#8211; Crediti: ESO\/F. Maio et al.\/T. Stolker et al.\/ ALMA (ESO\/NAOJ\/NRAO)\/N. van der Marel et al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that surrounds its young host star. Using ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), they observed a planetary disc with prominent spiral arms, finding clear signs of a planet nestled in its inner regions. This is the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[390,619,365],"class_list":["post-7611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-eso-2","tag-planet","tag-vlt"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eso2513-ENG.png",1226,612,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eso2513-ENG.png",150,75,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eso2513-ENG.png",300,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eso2513-ENG.png",768,383,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eso2513-ENG.png",1024,511,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eso2513-ENG.png",1226,612,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/eso2513-ENG.png",1226,612,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that surrounds its young host star. Using ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), they observed a planetary disc with prominent spiral arms, finding clear signs of a planet nestled in its inner regions. This is the first time astronomers have detected a planet candidate embedded inside a disc spiral &#8211; Read the full story on: The image to the left, taken with ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows a possible planet being born around the young star HD 135344B. This star, located&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7620,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions\/7620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}