A Disk of Gas and Dust around Exoplanet PDS 70 C (IMAGE)

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A Disk of Gas and Dust around Exoplanet PDS 70 C

Caption

A color-enhanced image of millimeter-wave radio signals from the ALMA observatory in Chile shows a disk of gas and dust (right of center) around exoplanet PDS 70 c, the first-ever observation of the kind of circumplanetary disk that is believed to have birthed the moons of Jupiter more than 4 billion years ago.

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A. Isella, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO))

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