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Have Astronomers Seen a Forming Planet in Action?

26 Sep , 2014 by Shannon Hall

Huge disks of dust and gas encircle many young stars. Some contain circular gaps — likely the result of forming planets carving out cavities along their orbital paths — that make the disks look more like ripples in a pond than flat pancakes. But astronomers know only a few examples, including the archetypal disk surrounding Beta […]

exoplanets, Planetary Disks, protoplanets, Very Large Array, Very Large Telescope

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