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RU Lup Spiral

ALMA image of the planet-forming disk around the young star RU Lup, showing a giant set of spiral arms made out of gas. The structure extends to nearly 1000 astronomical units from the star.

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Huang; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello

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Telescope	ALMA
Date	2018-10-02T17:51:40.512000
Center	RA: 15:56:42.28, Dec: -37:49:15.48

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