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exoALMA and CfA Provide a New Look at How Planets Are Formed

  • A gallery of the 15 sources surveyed by the exoALMA program imaged in millimeter-wave carbon monoxide emission. These images are some of the most detailed ever taken of the gas surrounding young stars from which planetary systems form, revealing a striking level of structure that includes gaps, rings and spirals.  Credit: Richard Teague (MIT)

    A gallery of the 15 sources surveyed by the exoALMA program imaged in millimeter-wave carbon monoxide emission. These images are some of the most detailed ever taken of the gas surrounding young stars from which planetary systems form, revealing a striking level of structure that includes gaps, rings and spirals.  

    Credit: Richard Teague (MIT)

    Low Resolution Image

  •  An artist's impression of new data collected by the exoALMA large program, which studied young star systems to map the motions of gas to uncover the processes that form planetary systems and identify signs of infant planets, including gaps and rings in the dust disks around stars, swirling motions in the gas caused by a planet's gravity, and physical changes in the disk that might signal a planet's presence. Credit NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/S. Dagnello

     An artist's impression of new data collected by the exoALMA large program, which studied young star systems to map the motions of gas to uncover the processes that form planetary systems and identify signs of infant planets, including gaps and rings in the dust disks around stars, swirling motions in the gas caused by a planet's gravity, and physical changes in the disk that might signal a planet's presence. 

    Credit NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/S. Dagnello

    Low Resolution Image