A bright ring of dust circling a young star can look calm from far away. In reality, it may mark one of the messiest moments ...

How do you weigh a planet you can't see? Astronomers may have the answer and it involves "reading between the rings," the ...

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The rotation of a protoplanetary disk (a disk where planets are being formed) has been observed directly for the very first time by mapping the emissions from the dust grains within it. The disk in ...

A team of astronomers has achieved a breakthrough in observing planetary formation by directly tracking the rotation of a ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

ALMA has spotted ring and spiral structures in protoplanetary disks just 300,000 or so years old. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The young ones: images of 20 protoplanetary discs taken by ALMA (Courtesy: ALMA) “Stunning” high-resolution images of 20 nearby protoplanetary discs have given astronomers a wealth of new information ...

Astronomers have been searching the skies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimter Array (ALMA) to study orbital geometries and protoplanetary disks that surround binary stars. The team found ...

Scientists studying a nearby protostar have detected the presence of water in its circumstellar disk. The new observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) mark the ...