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Moon-forming Region
July 31 , 2021
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- For the first time, scientists have spotted a moon-forming region around one of the two exoplanets (PDS 70c) orbiting an orange-coloured young star called PDS 70, which is located 370 light years from Earth.
- Exoplanets are planets found outside our solar system.
- ALMA observatory, Chile detected the disc of swirling material accumulating around one of two exoplanets seen orbiting a star.
- It is called a circumplanetary disc from which moons are born.
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