Gas and dust in the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star (IMAGE)

University of Leeds

Gas and dust in the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star

Caption

An artist's impression of the gas and dust in the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star.  The inset shows the molecular gas targeted by the MAPS observations, made up of a ‘soup' of both simple and complex molecules in the vicinity of still-forming planets.

Credit

M.Weiss/Center for Astrophysics/Harvard & Smithsonian

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