The vortex coronagraph discovers a candidate forming protoplanet

Based on observations of the young star MWC758 obtained with the vortex coronagraph on Keck/NIRC2, we have detected the presence of a point-like source in the protoplanetary disks, which most probably corresponds to a forming protoplanet. See paper here.

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