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Newly Discovered Planet WISPIT 2b Creates Gap in Protoplanetary Disk

8/29/2025

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Astronomers identified WISPIT 2b, a planet 430 light-years away, using the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
The planet has five times Jupiter's mass and is forming within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk.
This discovery is the first clear observation of a planet creating a gap in a protoplanetary disk.
Findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by a team from the University of Arizona and Leiden Observatory.

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Story summary

Astronomers identified WISPIT 2b, a planet 430 light-years away, using the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
The planet has five times Jupiter's mass and is forming within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk.
This discovery is the first clear observation of a planet creating a gap in a protoplanetary disk.
Findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by a team from the University of Arizona and Leiden Observatory.