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ALMA telescope catches live planet-forming action for the first time

Nov 7, 2014 3 min read

Uncategorized exoplanets HK Tauri HL Tauri orbital resonance planet formation proto-planetary disc

The ALMA telescope in Chile has, for the first time, observed a star system that might be in the early stages of planet formation. The picture has astronomers drooling over it because the study of the…

Why do tilted/eccentric orbits form?

Jul 31, 2014 2 min read

Uncategorized Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array binary star system eccentric orbits HK Tauri protoplanetary disks

For all its mysteries, the Solar System is uniquely ideal in many ways. For one, while it has rocky inner planets and giant, gassy outer ones, astronomers have found that elsewhere, massive exoplanets…