Astronomers have discovered, for the first time, moons forming in the disk of debris around a large exoplanet. Astronomers have suspected for a long time that this is how larger planets — like Jupiter in our own solar system — get their moons. It’s all happening around a very young star named PDS 70, about 370 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus.

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