Overview

• The image, captured in near‑infrared by ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, shows a confirmed protoplanet roughly 5 million years old.
• Researchers report the object embedded within a disk of rings and gaps about 380 astronomical units across.
• The team confirms ongoing gas accretion onto the planet, with its glow powered by residual formation heat.
• The discovery, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters by scientists from Leiden, Galway and Arizona, is presented as the first unequivocal planet detection in a multi‑ring disk.
• Coverage describes the world as Jupiter‑class, though an ESO Chile social post cited about five Jupiter masses, a figure not consistent across early reports.