NASA's K2 finds newborn exoplanet around young star
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 10:31
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected. The newfound planet, K2-33b, is a bit larger than Neptune and whips tightly around its star every five days. It is only 5 to 10 million years old, making it one of a very few newborn planets found to date.