The Search for Worlds in the Making
Astronomers have deployed a survey with the most memorable and tasty acronym in astrophysics – SPAM, The Search for Protoplanets with Aperture Masking – to catch planets in the act of being born. Using Keck Observatory’s most powerful instruments, researchers have just captured the closest ever view of a protoplanetary disk 400 light years away, revealing a telltale gap and clumpy structures that hint at a world coalescing from interstellar dust.
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