Moon-forming Region observed around Exoplanet PDS 70c
Recently, a team of scientists spotted, for the first time, a moon-forming region around an exoplanet - a planet beyond our solar system. It is a Jupiter-like world surrounded by a disc of gas and dust massive enough to spawn three moons the size of the one orbiting the Earth. The findings are contained in a paper published on 22nd July, 2021.
PDS 70b and PDS 70c
- Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) observatory in Chile's Atacama desert the researchers detected the disc of swirling material accumulating around one of the two newborn planets that were seen orbiting a ....
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