Video: Planet like Earth is forming

An Earth-like orbiting planet is forming in the dust cloud around the star TW Hydrae, 175 light-years away.

The star TW Hydrade is located 175 light-years away from Earth with a planetary disk rotating around. Astronomers say this is a sight like the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago, according to Business Insider.

Dust circles have a distance to the parent star by the distance from the Earth to the Sun.

The international team uses the Atacama Large Milimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile to observe what happens inside the disk of gas and dust. They found that one of the dust circles had a distance to the parent star by the distance from the Earth to the Sun.

"The new image from the ALMA telescope shows the details of the planet-forming disc, including concentric circles of dust and dark spaces. An orbiting planet like Earth is forming there , " Sean Andrews , member of the research team at the Harvard Astrophysics Center - Smithsonian, USA, said.