Transit of exoplanet TIDYE-1b: the youngest planet ever observed

Artist's illustration of the transit of exoplanet TIDYE-1b across a young orange star: a banded planet with a thin atmospheric rim crosses the glowing stellar disk against a starry space

The illustration depicts the transit of exoplanet TIDYE-1b, the youngest planet ever recorded by astronomers. A banded planet with a faint bluish atmospheric rim passes across the hot orange disk of a young star, surrounded by a cosmic disk and distant stars. The image conveys the scale of the event in which TIDYE-1b is, on a relative scale, 'younger' than the Earth itself.

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