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Planets Start to Form While Infant Stars Are Still Growing

Astronomers have found compelling evidence that planets start to form while infant stars are still growing. The high-resolution image obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows a young proto-stellar disk with multiple gaps and rings of dust. This new result, published in Nature, shows the youngest and most detailed example of dust rings ...

Troy Oakes

A young planet forming dust rings.