From Space Triumphs to Medical Milestones: Biggest Science News (Aug 28–29, 2025)
Key Facts Space and Astronomy A Planet Is Born: In a feat long thought nearly impossible, astronomers have directly imaged a planet in the act of forming. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, a team snapped a clear picture of WISPIT 2b, a gas giant about five times Jupiter’s mass, carving out a gap in the multi-ringed disk of a young Sun-like star ts2.tech ts2.tech. The baby planet glows red-hot as it accumulates gas. “Discovering this planet… was an amazing experience — we were incredibly lucky,” said Dr. Richelle van Capelleveen of Leiden Observatory, a co-leader of the discovery
