At the same time (literally), one of my PhD students (Amadeo Castro-González) gives a talk at an international conference (#TOE3_Porto2023), and my other PhD student (Olga Balsalobre) leads an ESO press release on a great discovery. All in just 30 min... stay tuned! #ProudSupervisor

¡Descubrimiento astronómico! 🌟 Nuestros investigadores han revelado que podrían formarse parejas de planetas que comparten órbita con su estrella. En el camino orbital de PDS 70 b, se ha encontrado una nube de polvo masiva, ¡de hasta 2 veces la masa de nuestra Luna! 🌙✨

🦄 Did we find one of the unicorns of astronomy? 🤔 Theory says two planets could share the same orbit but evidence is scant. 📡 Using ALMA Observatory📡, in which ESO is a partner, astronomers have now found one possible such sibling of an exoplanet ➡️ eso.org/public/news/es… 1/

Today is a great day. We are very happy to share with you a paper lead by Olga Balsalobre-Ruza, a PhD student at Centro Astrobiología, where we are presenting in an ESO PR the first evidence for **co-orbital** planet formation in an extrasolar system, the iconic PDS 70. 🧵

These results have been presented in a A&A journal paper involving planet formation and ALMA experts (Itziar de Gregorio-Monsalvo, Álvaro Ribas Gómez, M. Benisty and N. Huélamo) and co-orbital exoplanet detection (myself Jorge Lillo-Box and Olga Balsalobre, leading the paper). aanda.org/articles/aa/fu…

Finally, in this video of our Remote Worlds Lab team we explain the results for the general public. We also thank ESO for the press release and the awesome resources created by their media dept. lead by Juan Carlos Munoz youtu.be/JBInDm_6HcM

What an exciting day for the TROY project and my career! Great co-authors involved that make everything easier and cooler.

#BreakingNews 📡 Trojan planets could exist! In the PDS 70 system, a young star that hosts 2 giant Jupiter-like planets: a cloud of debris with a mass 2 times greater than our Moon was detected in PDS 70b almaobservatory.org/en/press-relea…

You’ve likely heard of the Trojan asteroids. But what about a Trojan planet? These astronomers think they’ve found the first. mashable.com/article/exopla…

📡🌌 Gracias a los datos del Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), los astrónomos han sido capaces de detectar el "hermano" de un planeta que gira alrededor de una lejana estrella, pero, ¿Qué quiere decir esto? ¡Abrimos hilo! 🧵

Talk by Olga Balsalobre Ruza (Center for Astrobiology CAB) Genesis of PDS 70 b Trojans hunted with ALMA at TOE III, Towards Other Earths #conference IAstro The Planet-Star connection, 20 July 2023 #TOE3_Porto2023 Olga Balsalobre Jorge Lillo-Box

Great talk by Olga Balsalobre presenting our ALMA Observatory📡/ESO results. Nice job! #ProudSupervisor #TOE3

Excellent week of #exoplanet science at Porto. A very productive week for our Remote Worlds Lab, with two talks by my PhD students Olga Balsalobre and Amadeo Castro-González and the awesome #PDS70 trojan press release.

Our video showing the discovery of the first hints of co-orbital planet formation in #PDS70 is now available with subtitles in several languages (including English!). You can watch it here: youtu.be/JBInDm_6HcM

Jesus Corral Santana Clouds go home! We are about to observe… cc Olga Balsalobre in the way to observe with ESPRESSO Science Team !

New paper day! It's been 6 years since TROY-project took off searching for #trojans to Hot-Jupiters. Now, we have extended the search to all low-mass stars hosting confirmed planets and… we found (three!) co-orbital candidates! How? Read this thread by 1st author Olga Balsalobre👇