At 5 Myr of age, WISPIT 2 is a newborn solar-like star 133 pc from us. Images from the SPHERE spectro-polarimeter, analysed by van Capelleveen and co-authors, show the presence of a 380 au-wide disk with four rings of varying size and a planet embedded in the widest gap, at ~55 au (pictured). Formation models indicate that WISPIT 2 b has a mass of ({4.9}_{-0.6}^{+0.9}) MJup and the authors suggest that it was probably formed in situ by core accretion, because the unperturbed appearance of the multi-ringed disk is indicative of the lack of rapid migration. Close and co-authors complement the SPHERE observations with Hα measurements of WISPIT 2 done by MagAO-X, showing that WISPIT 2 b is accreting a circumplanetary disc at a rate comparable to the other three discovered Hα protoplanets. Curiously, the inclinations of all these planets cluster around 45°, but the sample is too small to determine if this result has physical meaning or is just a coincidence.
The WISPIT (WIde Separation Planets In Time) survey aims at finding protoplanets around 178 pre-main sequence Sun-like stars with a median age of 8.5 Myr. In addition to WISPIT 2 b, this promising programme has also already directly imaged two gas giants around the stellar binary WISPIT 1 (R. F. van Capelleveen et al. Astron. Astrophys. (in the press); preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18456), providing new information to planetary formation theories.