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Birthplaces of new planets are more varied than once thought

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View larger. | These are the 73 protoplanetary disks – or planet-forming disks – that the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observed in the Lupus region. Two of the images contain binary stars. New research shows that such disks – the birthplaces of new planets – come in a much wider range of sizes than previously thought. The size of Neptune’s orbit is shown at the bottom right for scale. AU means astronomical unit. One AU is …

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EarthSky broke the news in United States on Thursday, April 3, 2025.
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