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Reprocessing archived Keck images, astronomers have confirmed a Jupiter-size planet less than a million years old, 55 times Earth's distance from its star, forming far faster than planet-formation models allow.

Using South Africa's MeerKAT array, a Harvard & Smithsonian team reports the first direct detection of auroral radio emission from a planet outside the Solar System, implying a magnetic field of at least 1,250 gauss on the giant planet Beta Pictoris b.