NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump Of Swirling Planetary Material

Astronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around. The observations, made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, offer a rare look into the early stages of planet formation.Planets form out of swirling disks of gas and dust. Spitzer observed infrared light coming from one such