NRAO Video Webcast: HL Tau

Director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Tony Beasley, talks about this epic new image from ALMA of planets forming around a young sun.
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF
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ALMA Astronomers People and Events Protoplanetary Disks Radio Telescopes and Technology
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