For the first time, a photo of a planet is forming

An astronomer at the University of Hawaii has just captured the first direct image of a planet being born.

Picture illustrates a planet forming around a star - (Photo: AP)

Astronomer Adam Kraus and Macquarie University colleague Michael Ireland used the Keck telescope located in Mauna Kea to observe the planet as it formed from gas and dust.

Astronomers named this planet LkCa 15 b . It is located 450 light years from Earth and is the youngest planet ever discovered.

Previously, scientists did not observe such a young planet, due to the light of the stars they turned around illuminating them.

AP said that to observe LkCa 15 b, Kraus and Ireland used many mirrors to neutralize the star's light near it.

"We realized that we discovered a planet of Jupiter-sized gas, but we could measure dust and gas around it. We found a planet at the beginning of it, " Kraus said.