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A new, Jupiter-size planet is on the verge of being born, and astronomers have incredible images of it
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It's still mind blowing to think that 'on the verge of' is only from our point of view, meanwhile this happened 5,000 years ago
In the cosmic timescale, 5000 years is only like a few seconds. It would take millions of years for the gases to fully form a planet.
Probably still happening tbh