A newly forming planet, AB Aurigae b, captured by Hubble is probably around nine times the size of Jupiter and orbits its host star at a distance two times the distance between our Sun and Pluto.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured images of a protoplanet that is forming in a process that has been described as “intense and violent”. NASA says this discovery confirms a long-debated theory called “disk instability” that explains how planets like Jupiter form.
The protoplanet is probably nine times bigger than Jupiter and orbits its host star at a distance of 8.6 billion miles, nearly two times the distance between our Sun and Pluto.