Sentences with phrase «young planets sweeping»

Johansen is also heartened by a recent discovery from ALMA, a submillimeter array of telescopes in Chile, of young planets sweeping clear paths through millimeter - sized dust grains in a protoplanetary disk no more than a million years old.

Not exact matches

When Hinz studied the disk of dust around the young star HD 100546, he discerned a small gap, probably swept out by a planet a few times the mass of Jupiter.
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