PDS 70 is a young star, only about 5 million years old—practically a newborn compared to our 4.6-billion-year-old sun. Surrounding it is a disk of gas and dust, ...

Donuts of dust: An artist’s impression of the PDS 70 system with protoplanets, each surrounded by dust rings illuminated by starlight. The planets themselves (not to scale) have thin rings of ...

The PDS 70 planetary system is 370 light-years from Earth. There are two confirmed protoplanets, gas giant exoplanets, inside this system: planets b and c. ...

The dwarf star PDS 70 is marked with a red circle. ESO/IAU/Sky & Telescope. Trojans are rocky bodies that exist within the same orbit as planets. These phenomena are common across our solar system ...

Exoplanet system PDS 70 could be home to the first-found 'exotrojan.' By Laura Baisas. Published Jul 19, 2023 12:00 PM EDT.

The PDS 70 system, which sits 370 light-years from Earth, is known to have two gas giant planets: PDS 70b and PDS 70c. This solar system is of intense scientific interest because it's one of ...

Astronomers spotted a possible “sibling” planet that shares the orbit of another exoplanet in a system located 370 light-years away.