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mattkenworthy.bsky.social
Delighted to see our WISPIT team announce the second directly imaged exoplanet from the WISPIT 2 system! Led by Chloe Lawlor (Galway) with Richelle van Capelleveen (Leiden), we also have a spectrum of the inner, more massive planet, showing carbon monoxide features. ☄ #exoplanet #astrodon
Composite showing two red dots, representing the exoplanets WISPIT 2b and 2c, embedded in the white ellipses of scattered light.
March 24, 2026 at 7:25 PM
astronomy.bsky.social
A newborn world caught in the act. NASA’s new image shows WISPIT 2b, a baby planet forming inside a ring of gas and dust around its star. It’s the first-ever photo of its kind, offering a rare glimpse into planetary birth.

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA
A newborn world caught in the act. NASA’s new image shows WISPIT 2b, a baby planet forming inside a ring of gas and dust around its star. It’s the first-ever photo of its kind, offering a rare glimpse into planetary birth. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
astronomy.bsky.social
Astronomers have found the first gap-clearing planet, WISPIT 2b nestled inside the rings of its star’s debris disk, it could be the missing link in planetary formation.

Credit: ESO/Laird Close, University of Arizona, R. F. van Capelleveen et al
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
gabeweible.bsky.social
It's great to see WISPIT 2 CC1 promoted to WISPIT 2c - congratulations to the team! 🔭☄️ #exoplanets
eso.org ESO @eso.org · Mar 24
A new solar system in the making?

For the second time ever, two planets have been directly observed forming around a host star. Our VLT and VLTI have helped astronomers confirm the presence of a second gas giant orbiting the star WISPIT 2. 

More: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2604/

🔭 🧪
A telescopic image of a flat, inclined fuzzy disc with bright rings and dark gaps, all concentric. There is a small blob in one of those gaps. An inset that zooms in on the centre of the disc shows a second blob in another gap.
March 25, 2026 at 2:12 AM
bearysweet.bsky.social
Young planets forming deep in the universe - WISPIT 2, a young star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust, in which at least two planets are forming.

The video combines images taken at various wavelengths and times, as captured by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy at ESO.
March 27, 2026 at 1:00 AM
theplanetaryguy.com
That planet is called WISPIT 2b, and is a gas giant approximately five times the mass of Jupiter. It orbits way, way farther out than Jupiter does the Sun, though—about 11 times farther out.

The star, WISPIT 2, is thought to be only around 5 million years old, and is around 437 lightyears away.
August 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
eso.org
This image of the baby planet WISPIT 2b taken with our Very Large Telescope is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day! 🔭🧪

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August 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
mattkenworthy.bsky.social
We had WISPIT 2 yesterday, and today we have van Capelleveen et al. with “WIde Separation Planets In Time (WISPIT): Two directly imaged exoplanets around the Sun-like stellar binary WISPIT 1” with 10 and 4 Jupiter mass planets at 338 and 840 au respectively #astrodon #exoplanet #exosci
A star as imaged by the SPHERE/VLT is shown, with a white ring and surrounded by white spikes, artifacts of the data reduction. Three small white points are seen near the star to the lower left. Two of them are highlighted and are images of the planets WISPIT 1b and 1c. From van Capelleveen+ (2025).
August 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
mattkenworthy.bsky.social
Proud supervisor moment: #LeidenObservatory graduate student Richelle van Capelleveen led one of two papers on our discovery of WISPIT 2b, a 5 Jupiter mass exoplanet clearing a path in a circumstellar disk. Laird Close and his team saw it in H-alpha, indicating gas accretion #astrodon 🔭 🧪
A series of concentric black and white ovals against a black background, with a dim red dot in the lower left of one of the paths of a black ring. The ovals are dust rings around a young star, and the red dot is a 5 Jupiter mass exoplanet called WISPIT 2b.
August 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
akasci.bsky.social
Stunning images of a multi-ringed disk around the star WISPIT 2 and its embedded planet WISPIT 2b taken using the SPHERE extreme adaptive optics imager at the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.
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1. SPHERE/IRDIS multiband RGB image of the WISPIT 2 system. The H-band Qϕ image was added as the blue channel and the median combination of the H-band and Ks-band Qϕ images was added as the green channel. The red channel is a combination of the Ks-band Qϕ image and the Ks-band cADI image in which we masked all but the gap containing the thermal emission from WISPIT 2b. Uses combination of polarized and unpolarized light. 1 AU = Mean Sun-Earth distance = ~150 million km Source: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf721 2. K-band RDI image (total intensity) image with a radius distance scaling from the central star applied to compensate for the drop-off in stellar illumination of the disk. For illustrative purposes the inset on the right panel shows an image of Jupiter. The authors think that WISPIT 2b looks similar to this. Source: https://www.christian-ginski.com/home/northeast-rgt98
August 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
drnereide.bsky.social
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A truly epic discovery!

It is about the super-Jupiter Wispit 2b, the first planet to be clearly identified while it is forming within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk.

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Image credit: ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.
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🔭 🧪 #planetsci
The image shows a protoplanetary disk around the star WISPIT 2, with concentric rings of gas and dust. At the center, a dark void, about 59 astronomical units wide, is created by the protoplanet WISPIT 2b, which is about 5-7 times the mass of Jupiter and visible as a faint point. The central star is hidden by a coronagraph on the SPHERE instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, which blocks its light to reveal the disk and the planet. The rings, visible as bright circles separated by dark regions, indicate the planet's gravitational pull, which is "eating" material from the disk as it grows. The system, tilted at approximately 44°, appears as a dusty ellipse against a black background of space. Hα observations from the Magellan telescope (MagAO-X) confirm that WISPIT 2b is accreting hydrogen gas. The image is a snapshot of a newborn planet in its stellar "nest."
September 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
rando.insalubrio.us
WISPIT 2’s multi-ring natal disk hosts the birth of a gas giant: an outer 5 MJup planet is joined by a newly characterized inner candidate (~8–12 MJup). Pending follow-up confirmation, this would be the second system observed forming planets after PDS 70! 🧪

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A composite image shows the planets WISPIT 2c (inner yellow dot) and WISPIT 2b (outer yellow dot) emerging from a ringed disc of material orbiting around the star WISPIT 2 (not visible in this image). Credit: ESO
March 31, 2026 at 9:32 PM
melina-iras07572.bsky.social
Nice, they confirmed WISPIT 2c, making WISPIT 2 a system with two planets inside gaps of the protoplanetary disk, separated by a ring.

Chloe Lawlor et al.
arxiv.org/abs/2603.22085
Image of the disk and its rings in blue. The planets are in red. Each planet orbits in its own gap and the planets are separated by a ring.
March 24, 2026 at 12:38 PM
apod.shinyakato.dev
🔭 WISPIT 2b: Exoplanet Carves Gap in Birth Disk

Image Credit: ESO, VLT, SPHERE; Processing & Copyright: ESO, Richelle van Capelleveen (Leiden Obs.) et al.; Text: Ogetay Kayali (MTU)

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A dark field has a series of light-colored elliptical rings in the center. Between two of the rings is a yellow-colored spot. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
August 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
fanapod.baldanders.info
#apod 2025-08-27
WISPIT 2b: Exoplanet Carves Gap in Birth Disk
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250827.html
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August 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
soraespace.bsky.social
若い星「WISPIT 2」で第2の原始惑星を発見　超大型望遠鏡VLTが直接観測
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わし座の方向約430光年先の若い星「WISPIT 2」の周囲で、形成途中にある2つの巨大ガス惑星が直接観測されました。
同じ円盤内で複数の原始惑星が確認されたのは観測史上2例目。太陽系の過去の姿を紐解く重要な発見について画像を交えて解説します
若い星「WISPIT 2」で第2の原始惑星を発見　超大型望遠鏡VLTが直接観測
わし座の方向約430光年先の若い星「WISPIT 2」の周囲で、形成途中にある2つの巨大ガス惑星が直接観測されました。同じ円盤内で複数の原始惑星が確認されたのは観測史上2例目。太陽系の過去の姿を紐解く重要な発見について画像を交えて解説します
sorae.info
April 1, 2026 at 2:51 AM
tomforsyth.bsky.social
Folks taking a direct picture of a planet 430 light-years away. Crazy science!
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/wispit-2b
Wow! Astronomers are witnessing a Jupiter-like planet forming round a Sun-like star in a system far, far away | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
WISPIT 2b is a new planet in the making and, for the first time, it has been caught inside a spectacular multi-ringed disk of dust and gas.
www.skyatnightmagazine.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
news.rte.ie
An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a new planet. It has been named WISPIT 2b and is about 430 light years away
University of Galway researchers help discover new planet
An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a new planet named WISPIT 2b.
www.rte.ie
August 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
astropics.bsky.social
画像には、生まれて間もないころの太陽に似た星WISPIT 2を取り囲む原始惑星系円盤が映っています。円盤のすき間には惑星WISPIT 2bが見えています。WISPIT 2bは木星の約5倍の質量を持ち、57auほどのところを公転しているとみられています。

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Image Credit: ESO/R. F. van Capelleveen et al.
August 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
kevinkhu.bsky.social
This has been stuck in my head ever since the WISPIT #exoplanet announcements yesterday. 🫠

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August 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
soraespace.bsky.social
若い星の周囲で育つ原始惑星「WISPIT 2b」 超大型望遠鏡VLTが観測

⬇️記事本文はこちら⬇️
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こちらは、ESO＝ヨーロッパ南天天文台のVLT＝超大型望遠鏡で観測した、若い星「WISPIT 2」。
わし座の方向、約433光年先にあるWISPIT 2は、いくつかの隙間があるリング状の原始惑星系円盤に囲まれています
若い星の周囲で育つ原始惑星「WISPIT 2b」 超大型望遠鏡VLTが観測
こちらは、ESO＝ヨーロッパ南天天文台のVLT＝超大型望遠鏡で観測した、若い星「WISPIT 2」。わし座の方向、約433光年先にあるWISPIT 2は、いくつかの隙間があるリング状の原始惑星系円盤に囲まれています
sorae.info
September 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
spaceaday.bsky.social
WISPIT 2b: Exoplanet Carves Gap in Birth Disk
WISPIT 2b: Exoplanet Carves Gap in Birth Disk
August 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
herbstwind.bsky.social
Astronomen haben einen zweiten Jungplaneten in der protoplanetaren Scheibe um den Stern WISPIT 2 aufgespürt. Damit ist dieses System erst die zweite bekannte Mehrplaneten-Kinderstube...
www.wissenschaft.de/rubriken/dos...
June 11, 2026 at 3:25 AM
coreyspowell.bsky.social
If you want to go deep: The full paper about the newborn planet WISPIT 2b is available online.

This planet is about 5 million years old, 1/1000th the age of our solar system. Relative to a human lifetime, it's a two-week-old infant. 🧪🔭

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
Shown here is a SPHERE/IRDIS multiband image of the WISPIT 2 system. The H-band Qϕ image was added as the blue channel and the median combination of H-band and Ks-band Qϕ images was added as the green channel. The red channel is a combination of a Ks-band Qϕ image and a Ks-band cADI image in which we masked all but the gap containing the thermal emission from WISPIT 2b.
August 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
cadenaser.com
WISPIT 2b: descubren un planeta recién nacido en plena formación a 430 años luz
WISPIT 2b: descubren un planeta recién nacido en plena formación a 430 años luz
Astrónomos captan por primera vez un planeta dentro de un disco de múltiples anillos, lo que podría revolucionar el estudio de la formación planetaria
dozz.es
August 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM