HD 100546, also known as KR Muscae, is a star 320 light-years from Earth.[1] It is orbited by an approximately 20 MJ exoplanet at 6.5 AU,[6] although further examination of the disk profile indicate it might be a more massive object such as a brown dwarf or more than one planet.[7] The star is surrounded by a circumstellar disk from a distance of 0.2 to 4 AU, and again from 13 AU out to a few hundred AU, with evidence for a protoplanet forming at a distance of around 47 AU.[8]