21-06-2016 13:41 via indianexpress.com

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovers youngest exoplanet ever

NASA: K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date. It makes a complete orbit around its star in about five days. (Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Scientists, using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected – only 5 to 10 million years old -that may help better understand how planets form.
The planet, K2-33b, is slightly larger than Neptune and whips tightly around its star every five days. I
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