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Max Planck Society: Rare Discovery of Two Protoplanets
March 28, 2026
MUNICH, Germany, March 28 -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news:

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Rare discovery of two protoplanets

A cosmic laboratory for planet formation in the WISPIT-2 System

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* Two protoplanets have been detected in the young star system WISPIT 2 - one of the rare cases in which multiple forming planets have been directly observed.

* Using the upgraded GRAVITY+ instrument on the ESO VLTI, a previo . . .

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