Astronomers have just captured the formation of a newborn solar system 1300 light years away. 🌌 Using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, astronomers have witnessed one of the earliest stages in planet formation around a young star called HOPS 315, located about 1300 light years from Earth. This star is surrounded by a glowing disc of gas and dust, which is beginning to solidify into solid material. These tiny grains are the first building blocks that will eventually form planets, moons, a