In contradiction to the long-standing idea that larger planets take longer to form, U.S. Astronomers today announced the discovery of a Giant Planet in close orbit around a star so young that it still retains a disk of circumstellar gas and dust. This false-color image from a sub-millimeter interferometic telescope shows the circumstellar disk of gas  and dust that surrounds star CI Tau [Credit: Stephane Guilloteau/University of...

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