Did you know astronomers just photographed the youngest planet ever discovered? It’s called Elias 2-24 b, and it’s less than a million years old… and it’s still wrapped in the very disk of dust and gas it was born from! It’s so far from its star  more than 54 astronomical units away, beyond Pluto’s orbit  that it barely moved 1.5° along its orbit between 2018 and 2020. At that rate, it would take hundreds of thousands of years to complete a single full lap. And yet, despite being so far out in the cold, it reaches up to 1,600 degrees Kelvin! Hotter than many much older planets. We’re literally watching…