This new image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows the finest detail ever seen in the planet-forming disc around the nearby Sun-like star TW Hydrae. It reveals a tantalising gap at the same distance from the star as the Earth is from the Sun, which may mean that an infant version of our home planet, or possibly a more massive super-Earth, is beginning to form there.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1611/
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The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
31 March 2016
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24 March 2016: The 19th issue of the Communicating Astronomy with the Public journal is out now!
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