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January 23, 2014

ALMA Discovers a Formation Site of a Giant Planetary System
Atacama, Chile (SPX) Jan 23, 2014
A team of Japanese astronomers has obtained a firm evidence of formation of a giant planetary system around a young star by the observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This result has a transformative impact on the theories of planet formation and gives us a clue to the origin of a wide variety of planetary systems. The research team, led by astronomers at Osaka University and Ibaraki University, observed a young star named HD142527 in the constellation Lupus (th ... read more

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