Planets Can Form Even in Harsh Stellar Environments, New ALMA Observations Suggest

Planets Can Form Even in Harsh Stellar Environments, New ALMA Observations Suggest
These ALMA images show rich disk structures around stars in Sigma Orionis. Image credit: ALMA / ESO / JAO / NAOJ / NRAO / Huang et al.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have captured high-resolution images of eight protoplanetary disks in Sigma Orionis, a star cluster irradiated by intense ultraviolet light from a massive star.

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 Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have captured high-resolution images of eight protoplanetary disks in Sigma Orionis, a star cluster irradiated by intense ultraviolet light from a massive star.
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