ALMA is capable of
observing small dust and gas that will be ingredients of planets.
Not exact matches
The MIT - led team looked through data collected by two different telescopes and identified a curious pattern in the energy emitted by the flare: As the obliterated star's
dust fell into the black hole, the researchers
observed small fluctuations in the optical and ultraviolet (UV) bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.
In contrast to earlier observations the team did not
observe dust that will later form into planets, but
dust created in collisions between
small planets of a few kilometres in size — objects called planetesimals that are similar to the asteroids and comets of the Solar System.
These
small, faint systems made up of millions or billions of stars,
dust, and gas constitute the most common type of galaxy
observed in the universe.
The nebula was
observed with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys in Sept. 2015, as part of a survey called the
Small Magellanic cloud Investigation of
Dust and Gas Evolution (SMIDGE).
The nebula was
observed as part of a Hubble survey, the
Small Magellanic cloud Investigation of
Dust and Gas Evolution (SMIDGE).
The estimated contribution of
dust changes to the
observed trend is
small, roughly one - quarter of the total trend.