Youngest Exoplanet Ever Discovered Orbiting Around a Growing Protostar 520 Light-Years Away

TIDYE-1b, a “baby” gas giant exoplanet just 3 million years old, has been discovered orbiting a protostar in the Taurus molecular cloud. The planet’s youth makes it around 1,500 times younger than Earth, offering a rare glimpse into planetary formation. However, TIDYE-1b is orbiting a star surrounded by a misaligned protoplanetary disk, which challenges our understa…

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