Planet’s birth captured on camera for the first time

Every birth is spectacular, if a little icky – so capturing the moment a planet is born is even more impressive.

The first confirmed image of a planet’s birth has been confirmed this week by the European Southern Observatory.

Astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany have captured the first image of a planet being born.

The snapshot shows the formation of a young planet named PDS 70b emerging from the dwarf star PDS 70, proving that not everybody has excellent naming skills.

The photo reveals the PDS 70’s sculpted transition disc, an inner gap stipulated by scientists for decades as being the byproduct of disc-planet interactions, Interesting Engineering reports.

It’s the first time the brand new planet can be seen.

The team discovered the baby planet is a giant gas planet bigger than Jupiter and with a surface temperature of around 1000°C.