Stellar jet pressures planet-forming disk

By reanalyzing archival data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), scientists have discovered a giant, expanding bubble that is pushing against and distorting the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, WSB 52. You can see an animation of this event here: Stars and their planets form when large molecular clouds collapse in on themselves.Continue reading “Stellar jet pressures planet-forming disk”
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