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Some astronomers managed to take a picture of a planet that is at the early stages of formation.They said the planet is similar to Earth .
Dubbed Planet Earth 2.0 was seen in an image that shows a bunch of dense dust nan, orbiting around a young star.
As reported by the Daily Mail , an amazing photo that shows the 10 million-year-old star called TW Hydrae, located quite close to the Earth, which is at a distance of 175 light.
The researchers believe that by studying such a new star system TW Hydrae, may reveal a lot about our solar system at once.
Photos taken with a telescope Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), it is believed by the researchers is similar to the solar system at 4.5 billion years ago.
"Previous research using optical and radio telescopes, have confirmed that in TW Hydrae there is a disc shape with the characteristics that allegedly contained the planet began to coalesce," said Sean Andrews of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
He also added, "The new image generated ALMA show discs with detail that has never been seen before, namely by showing a series of concentric ring of dusty light at a distance that is dark, including traits interesting to indicate that a planet with an orbit like Earth formed there."
The formation of new planets is thought to have similarities with the Earth orbiting the nearby star called TW Hydare (Photo: ESO, NAOJ, NRAO).
Other researchers say that the distances contained in the image is located approximately 1.8 and 3.7 million miles, or 2.9 and 5.9 million kilometers of the central star.This is similar to the average distance from the Sun to Uranus and Pluto in our solar system.
The chances of them as a result of the particles coalesce to form planets, with orbit sweeping of dust and gas and herded the remaining ingredients into a clear bond.
For TW Hydrea new investigation, astronomers describe faint radio emissions with measures such as the millimeter scale dust particles in the disc. It can reveal the order detail distance between the Sun to the Earth.
Detailed observation can be realized with a high-resolution telescope ALMA, with long baseline configuration.
ALMA telescope, located in Chile Antofagasta (Photo: ESO).
"TW Hydrae very special. Star was a protoplanetary discs - discs that form around young stars - closest Earth and possibly most similar to the Solar System when she was only 10 million years," said David Wilner.
ALMA previously observed for other systems named HL Tauri. In the investigation showed protoplanetary discs younger, aged no more than 1 million years old, and shows the hallmark of planet formation.
By studying the discs TW Hydare older, the astronomers hope to understand the evolution of the Earth and the possibility that occurs in a similar system in the Milky Way.
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