Radio Astronomers Have Found a Disk of Gas and Dust around Exoplanet PDS 70 C (IMAGE)

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Radio Astronomers Have Found a Disk of Gas and Dust around Exoplanet PDS 70 C

Caption

Radio astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes in Chile have found a disk of gas and dust (left) around exoplanet PDS 70 c, a still-forming gas giant that was obscured from view in the 2018 infrared image (right) that first revealed its sister planet, PDS 70 b.

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

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