Thousands of extrasolar planets have been discovered, but none is a planet in its infancy. Observations have finally been made of a young planet growing in its birthplace — opening the way to many more such discoveries. See Letter p.342
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Zhu, Z. Growing planet brought to light. Nature 527, 310–311 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/527310a
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