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ALMA images a planet five times Jupiter's mass interacting with the gas it formed in
MPIA astronomers used ALMA to image WISPIT 2b, a gas giant five times Jupiter's mass, interacting with the gas it formed in. Formation models have rested on simulations and indirect evidence, so a planet still feeding on its birth gas gives them a direct check.
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