Press release: VLT/SPHERE confirmation image of a newborn exoplanet

ESO’s VLT/SPHERE announced today the confirmation images of an exoplanet inside the gap of the PDS 70 proto-planetary disk. Michael Meyer is part of the SPHERE consortium that has made this exciting discovery. Detailed results were released today in two manuscripts: discovery & confirmation paper, and characterization paper.

Detection of a planet caught in formation discovered by VLT/SPHERE from the ESO press release: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1821/

You can see the ESO press release here: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1821/