Scientists Identify Moon-Forming Disk Around Planet Outside Solar System

Scientists say they have clearly identified for the first time a moon-forming area
around a planet beyond our solar system.

The ring-shaped area surrounds an exoplanet called PDS 70c.

PDS 70c is a gas giant discovered in 2019, the U.S. space agency NASA says. It is
one of two exoplanets orbiting the orange-colored star PDS 70. The exoplanets sit
about 370 light years from Earth. A light year is the distance light travels in a year,
about 9.5 trillion kilometers.

Both planets are similar to Jupiter, a gas giant and the biggest planet in our solar
system.

Scientists have discovered more than 4,400 exoplanets. But no circumplanetary

disks had been clearly identified until now because all known exoplanets were
contained in "mature," or fully developed, solar systems.

The PDS 70 star -- which has about the same mass as our sun -- is about 5 million
years old. The researchers say that is considered very young in cosmic terms. The
two exoplanets orbiting the star are even younger.

In my opinion To identify celestial bodies, including the moon-forming disks

Around Planet Outside Solar System, can spent more time and also requires precise
accuracy. so it is reasonable that researchers in the past were unable to clearly
distinguish the disc from the surrounding environment.

As we know that Researchers from the ALMA observatory, which operates from
Chile’s Atacama desert, made the discovery. ALMA is the largest radio telescope
in the world to identified region is known as a circumplanetary disk. This is an area
surrounding a planet where moons and other satellite objects can form. The disk is
made up of gas and dust.