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NASA Finds Record-Breaking Baby Planet in Space
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Astronomers have confirmed the youngest known planet ever observed, offering scientists a rare look at a world still in the earliest stages of its formation. The newly confirmed planet, named Elias 2-24 b, is less than 1 million years old and remains surrounded by the disk of gas and dust from which planets form, according to NASA. The discovery was made using observations stored in NASA-funded archives. For comparison, the previous record holders for the youngest known planets are more than 5 million years old. Elias 2-24 b's extreme youth could give researchers…
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