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Growing planet brought to light

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Thousands of extrasolar planets have been discovered, but none is a planet in its infancy. Observations have finally been made of a young planet growing in its birthplace — opening the way to many more such discoveries. See Letter p.342

Finding young planets in their birthplaces is extremely challenging, because actively forming planetary systems are far away and obscured by dust. On page 342 of this issue, Sallum et al.1 report the use of a new technique to detect an emission signal from a growing planet. This discovery has far-reaching implications for our understanding of the planet-formation process and of the properties of young planets.

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  1. Zhaohuan Zhu is in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.,

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