K2-33b was famous as the baby planet, only 5-10 million years old. Now an even younger world has been found.
Meet Elias 2-24b, about 450 light-years away and less than 1 million years old. It was spotted as a bright point inside a gap in a huge disc of gas and dust around a young star — and it may still be forming right now.
That makes it younger than K2-33b, giving us a rare, live look at a planet being born, and at how worlds like Earth begin.
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