The planet Elias 2-24 b has been confirmed around the young star Elias 2-24, resolving a gap in the star's disk that had been observed for about a decade.^[3] The confirmation combined Keck Observatory archival data from 2018 and 2020 with earlier detections from ALMA and the Very Large Telescope.^[2] About a decade before the confirmation, ALMA and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope had observed an empty ring and a faint point of light around the star, but astronomers were doubtful because planet formation theories estimated a Jupiter-size planet takes about 5 million years to form.^[1] Andrea Bernardi said Elias 2-24 b is at the limit of current telescope capabilities and that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched on August 30, should make such detections easier.^[4]