Infant worlds carve gaps in planet-forming disk
New image bolsters theories about how solar systems form
PLANETARY BABY PICTURE Growing planets carve out rings in the disk of gas and dust that encircles a nearby young star in this image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
ALMA (NRAO, ESO, NAOJ), C. Brogan and B. Saxton (NRAO, AUI, NSF)