A planet-forming disk still fed by the mother cloud

Space Daily

A planet-forming disk still fed by the mother cloud

Garching, Germany (SPX) Nov 24, 2020 Stellar systems like our own form inside interstellar clouds of gas and dust that collapse producing young stars surrounded by protoplanetary disks. Planets form within these protoplanetary disks, leaving clear gaps, which have been recently observed in evolved systems, at the time when the mother cloud has been cleared out. ALMA has now revealed an evolved protoplanetary disk with a large