By Emily Chung, CBC News, June 21, 2016
Discovery made using technique borrowed from medical imaging
For the first time, scientists have found a giant planet snuggled up against a very young baby star, a rare discovery offering a new glimpse at how such planets develop.
The “hot jupiter” planet was found orbiting the star V830 Tau, located about 430 light years from Earth in a star-forming region of the constellation Taurus, says an international team of researchers led by French scientist Jean-François Donati of France’s National Center for Scientific Research.
