A huge radio telescope in Chile has captured the best-ever image of planets forming around a distant star, researchers say. The spectacular view of planet birth, taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile, shows numerous concentric rings in the disk of dust and gas surrounding HL Tau, a sunlike star found about 450 light-years away from Earth. “These features are almost certainly the result of young planetlike bodies that are being formed in the disk,” ALMA deputy director Stuartt Cordersaid in a statement. “This is surprising, since HL Tau is no more than a million...
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