ALMA Observation of Young Star Reveals Details of Dust Grains

22/11/2023 3 min Episodio 42
ALMA Observation of Young Star Reveals Details of Dust Grains

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Highest Resolution Dust Polarization Image Ever Taken Toward a Protoplanetary Disk One of the primary goals of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is to study the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Young stars are often surrounded by a disk of gas and dust, out of which planets can form. One of the first high resolution images that ALMA captured was of HL Tauri, a young star just 480 light-years away surrounded by a protoplanetary disk.