{"id":244400,"date":"2026-09-23T01:23:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/astronomers-just-caught-a-giant-planet-in-the-act-of-forming"},"modified":"2026-09-23T01:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:23:59","slug":"astronomers-just-caught-a-giant-planet-in-the-act-of-forming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/astronomers-just-caught-a-giant-planet-in-the-act-of-forming","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Just Caught a Giant Planet in the Act of Forming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Stcg3HCRSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Astronomers have confirmed the youngest known planet, a Jupiter-size baby world less than a million years old that formed far faster than expected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have confirmed the youngest known planet ever observed, a world less than 1 million years old that is still surrounded by the material from which it formed. Known as Elias 2\u201324 b, the young planet remains embedded in a swirling disk of gas and dust around its host star.<\/p>\n<p>Its extreme youth is forcing researchers to reconsider how quickly large planets can take shape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have confirmed the youngest known planet, a Jupiter-size baby world less than a million years old that formed far faster than expected. Astronomers have confirmed the youngest known planet ever observed, a world less than 1 million years old that is still surrounded by the material from which it formed. Known as Elias 2\u201324 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}