Giant Planet Forming Solar System Discovered By Japanese Astronomers | Animation

Friday, January 17, 2014 - 13:20 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers from the Osaka University and Ibaraki University have found evidence of dust particles colliding to form protoplanets around a young star named HD142527. It was observed using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

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