ALMA Reveals the Birthplace of a Planetary System
13 December, 2024
Dust Accumulation to Form a New Planet Outside Just-Formed Planets The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecting a high concentration of dust grains, a planet-forming material, outside the orbits of just-formed planets. An international research team led by Kiyoaki Doi, then a Ph.D. student at the...