Giant 'baby' exoplanet Elias 2-24 b is the youngest alien world scientists have ever seen

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Astronomers first noticed the gap caused by Elias 2-24 b in 2017, but could not directly see the exoplanet until now. Planets form by accreting material from a star's protoplanetary disk, as shown in this illustration of the fellow "baby" exoplanet WISPIT 2b, which is around 5 million years old. The most common method for finding exop