WISPIT 2b was an unexpected discovery made during a five-year research project carried out by an international team of astronomers at Leiden University, the University of Arizona.

The find represents the first clear detection of a baby planet taking shape within a disk of dust and gas with multiple rings.

Researchers claim that further observations of the system might reveal new insights about how our own solar system may have looked in its early days.

A team of astronomers at the University of Arizona played an integral role in uncovering a baby planet with a pretty darn cute nickname appropriate for a celestial body still in its infant stage.

The growing exoplanet, named WISPIT 2b, is estimated to be about 5 million years old – relatively young in cosmic terms – and five time

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