(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 discovery was made using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and its extended K2 mission, as well as the W M Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The planet, K2-33b, is slightly larger than Neptune and whips tightly around its star every five days. (Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA: K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date. By comparison, the planet K2-33b is very young.

Source: Indian Express June 21, 2016 08:36 UTC