Overview

• An international team led by Leiden University with co-leads at the University of Galway and the University of Arizona reports the discovery in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
• The planet orbits a young Sun-like star about 430 light-years away and is roughly five million years old.
• Near-infrared observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope resolved the proto-planet in a disk gap and confirmed it is gravitationally bound to its host star.
• A University of Arizona visible-light detection at a specific wavelength signals ongoing gas accretion onto the forming planet.
• The system’s roughly 380‑AU multi-ring disk offers a rare planet–disk laboratory, marking only the second confirmed planet seen at such an early stage around a Sun-like star.