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World - July 17, 2025

A Solar System is born, as witnessed by the astronomers for the first time.

Merel van ‘t Hoff, Professor & Co-author of Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, has reiterated saying “we’re seeing a system that looks like what our Solar System looked like when it was just beginning to form. This system is one of the best that we know to actually probe some of the processes that happened in our Solar System”.

Her revelation, was on the basis of the observations gathered from both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimetre / submillimetre Array telescope in Chile, has helped uncover the birth of this planetary system located in the Orion constellation, around 1,300 light-years away.

The invention of Merel van ’t Hoff was authenticated by Fred Ciesla, a planetary scientist at the University of Chicago who peer-reviewed the study. As Fred Ciesla said that the planetary system was like “a unicorn.” “It’s oriented so we can actually see it. That makes it very special, and I expect we still have a lot to learn from it. This could offer a glimpse into “time zero” of our solar system, when planets began to form around the sun”.

Astronomers have reached a step closer in discovering how our solar system was created. The international research team revealed in a study on Wednesday that they have captured a photo of the early stages of planets being formed around an infant star, protostar HOPS-315, for the first time ever.

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