A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation has finished, while a same-aged companion star in this double star system still has a planet-forming disk.
The researchers have published their findings in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
The double star system HD 135344 AB is located approximately 440 light-years away in the constellation Lupus. It consists of two young stars, A and B, that orbit each other at great distances.