An international team of astronomers has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust surrounding nearby young stars, using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
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From Stardust to Stone: Windswept Grains Hold Clues to Planet’s Beginnings
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered a key piece of the puzzle in how rocky planets, such as Earth, form around young stars.
exoALMA Gives Astronomers A New Look At How Planets Are Formed
Thanks to newly developed advanced imaging techniques, exoALMA, which uses the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has revealed the most exquisite images of young solar systems, never before seen by astronomers.
ALMA Detects First-Ever Hydrogen Recombination Lines From Proplyd Disks in Densely Packed Orion Nebula Cluster
A team of astronomers has used archived ALMA observations to identify for the first time the characteristic radio recombination lines associated with shells of ionized gas surrounding Solar System-sized proplyd disks in the Orion Nebula Cluster, at a distance of 1000 light-years from Earth.