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A “baby” exoplanet, found emerging from its cosmic cocoon around a close-by star, is the youngest alien world ever seen, a brand-new research study exposes. The planetary baby is less than 1 million years of ages and might assist scientists study how other worlds, including our own, took shape.

The juvenile world, called Elias 2-24 borbits a freshly formed star around 450 light-years from Earth. It is someplace in between 2 and 4 times as enormous as Jupiter and practically two times as far from its home star as Neptune is from the sun

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