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This image released by The European Southern Observatory on July 23, 2021, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows a close-up view on the moon-forming disc surrounding PDS 70c, a young Jupiter-like gas giant nearly 400 light-years away. It shows this planet and its disc centre-front, with the larger circumstellar ring-like disc taking up most of the right-hand side of the image. The dusty?circumplanetary?disc is as large as the Sun-Earth distance and has enough mass to form up to three satellites the size of the Moon. - Astronomers have reported the first unequivocal detection of a disk of gas and dust encircling a planet outside our solar system that is likely to form moons. (Photo by Handout / European Southern Observatory / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS