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Phil Plait
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Astronomy is so weird sometimes. You can't tell how big that object is without some sense of scale… but it's well over SIXTY BILLION KILOMETERS ACROSS.
And that little dot in the gap? *That's a baby planet bigger than Jupiter siphoning up material to grow.*
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-newly-forming-planet-minds-the-gap-ea2b2231cc28bbff
2025-08-28T14:27:46.710Z