ALMA

How Water Vapor Is Rewriting the Story of Planet Formation

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Researchers using the ALMA observatory have detected water vapor in the disc around a young star, in a region where planets are ...

Scientists Find Oceans Of Water On Planet Forming Star

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

HL Tauri is a part of one of the largest and closest star-forming regions to Earth. In a major breakthrough, scientists have ...

First-Ever Circumstellar Disc Discovered Beyond the Milky Way

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Astronomers have discovered a rotating disk around a forming high-mass star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, marking the most distant such observation. ...