Can you believe it?
This is a real image of an alien world forming around a star.
Astronomers have captured an image of a small planet forming within the dusty disc surrounding a distant star with the Magellan Telescope in Chile. The body, known as WISPIT 2b, is technically a young 'protoplanet', because it hasn't yet become a fully-fledged planet and is still in the process of forming.
Despite this, it's enormous. It's a gas giant about 5 times as massive as Jupiter. It's very young in planetary terms, at just 5 million years old. To put it into perspective, Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
WISPIT 2b is also close-by, just 437 lightyears from Earth.