... protostar masks the presence of any planets that have started to form. Rather handily, SPHERE is equipped with a coronagraph, and this blocks out the central region of the star allowing the rest of the disc to be imaged...
... in the Chilean Atacama desert. SPHERE blocks the bright light from the star using a device called coronagraph, allowing the much fainter planets to be seen. While older planets, such as those in our Solar System, are...