Images of Stars Offer Rare Insight into the Formation of Planets
Thursday, December 13, 2018 - 09:50
in Astronomy & Space
New images taken by a team of researchers that included California State University, Northridge astrophysicist Luca Ricci offer insight into the birth of new planets and the formation of solar systems, including our own. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in Chile, Ricci and his colleagues captured the clearest images yet of 20 young stars […]