ALMA Captures Stirred-Up Planet Factory

August 3, 2020
ALMA image of the planet-forming disk around the young star RU Lup.

In recent years, high resolution observations of dust structures have revolutionized our understanding of planet formation. However, this new image of the gas indicates that the current view of planet formation is still too simplistic and that it might be much more chaotic than previously inferred from the well-known images of neatly concentric ringed disks.

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