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Planet Elias 2-24 b confirmed after decade of disk observations

Astronomers used archival data from Keck, ALMA and the Very Large Telescope to confirm the planet, which had been hinted at by a gap in the star's disk for about a decade.

Luisa Marconi
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The planet Elias 2-24 b has been confirmed around the young star Elias 2-24, resolving a gap in the star's disk that had been observed for about a decade.[3] The confirmation combined Keck Observatory archival data from 2018 and 2020 with earlier detections from ALMA and the Very Large Telescope.[2]