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The PDS 70 system and in-action planet formation

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Since its discovery in 2018, PDS 70 is one of the two youngest known exoplanetary systems, still surrounded by its parental protoplanetary disk — an environment where planet formation can be studied in action and that may mirror the first million years of our own Solar System.

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Fig. 1: The PDS 70 system.

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Pinilla, P., Benisty, M. The PDS 70 system and in-action planet formation. Nat Astron 9, 1590–1591 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02705-5

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