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Showing posts with label planet formation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planet formation. Show all posts

Saturday, January 12, 2013

ALMA makes gas flows visible on the planet formation


Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) for the first time to directly observe how extensive gas streams overcome a gap in the disk of matter around a young star. In theory, should such gas streams arise during the growth phase of planets? This is a key stage in the birth of the gas giants. The observations are the second January 2013 published in the journal Nature.