Astronomers See a Newly Forming Planetary Disk That’s Continuing to Feed On Material from its Nebula

Astronomers See a Newly Forming Planetary Disk That’s Continuing to Feed On Material from its Nebula
By Evan Gough

Over the last few years, astronomers have observed distant solar systems in their early stages of growth. ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) has captured images of young stars and their disks of material. And in those disks, they’ve spotted the tell-tale gaps that signal the presence of growing young planets. As they ramped up their …

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November 27, 2020 at 02:21AM
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