ALMA discovers a formation site of a giant planetary system
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 10:50
in Astronomy & Space
A team of Japanese astronomers has obtained a firm evidence of formatino of a giant planetary system around a young star by the observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This result has a transformative impact on the theories of planet formation and gives us a clue to the origin of a wide variety of planetary systems.