Twenty Protoplanetary Disks Imaged by ALMA

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Twenty Protoplanetary Disks Imaged by ALMA

A team of astronomers has conducted ALMA‘s first large-scale, high-resolution survey of protoplanetary disks. Known as the Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP), this “Large Program” of ALMA has yielded stunning, high-resolution images of 20 nearby protoplanetary disks and given astronomers new insights into the variety of features they contain and the speed with which planets can emerge.

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), S. Andrews et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello

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