However, new observations exploiting the power of ALMA are now answering one of the biggest questions: how do tiny grains of dust in the disc
around a young star grow bigger and bigger — to eventually become rubble, and even boulders well beyond a metre in size?
Studying the propellers can help reveal how planets forming in the disk of gas and dust
around a young star grow.
Not exact matches
Astronomers found signs of a
growing planet
around TW Hydra, a nearby
young star, using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).
However, it wasn't expected that so many large planets are
growing around such a
young star at the age of 1 million years in a «standard model» that was long accepted by astronomers.
Set
around the holidays, it
stars Anna Kendrick as a
young woman who, after breaking up with her boyfriend, moves in with her brother (Swanberg), his wife (Melanie Lynskey, who
starred in 2012's «Hello I Must Be Going,» another Sundance film about a girl who gets dumped, goes home and
grows up) and their two - year - old son.