This Exoplanet Shows We Might Be Wrong About Planet Formation

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Though we’ve been able detect thousands of exoplanets in the last few decades, we’ve now directly imaged an exoplanet that changes our whole perspective on how we think planets like Jupiter form!

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Image Sources:
Thumbnail Modified from: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
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