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HL Tau – ALMA Reveals the Birth of Planets Poster

Demonstrating the power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, this image reveals a spectacular planet-forming disk of dust and gas around the young Sun-like star HL Tauri, located 450 light-years from Earth. The superposed ellipses indicate, for comparison, the orbits of the planets in our Solar System.

Credit: ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); NRAO/AUI/NSF, C. Brogan, B. Saxton, J. Hellerman

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