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Puffy baby planets reveal a missing stage of planet formation

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Puffy baby planets reveal a missing stage of planet formation

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Puffy baby planets reveal a missing stage of planet formation

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be inflated precursors of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes.