Composite Image of the Protoplanetary Disc around HD 163296 (IMAGE)

University of Leeds

Composite Image of the Protoplanetary Disc around HD 163296

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The inner red regions represent the dust in the disc, thought to be shaped into rings by forming planets. The wider blue region is the carbon monoxide (CO) gas in the disc. The inner green region shows the rarer 13C17O gas that the researchers have detected for the first time.

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Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Booth and colleagues, University of Leeds

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