A protoplanetary disk (IMAGE)

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A protoplanetary disk

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A protoplanetary disk as observed by ALMA (left), and a protoplanetary disk during planetary migration, as obtained from the ATERUI II simulation (right). The dashed line in the simulation represents the orbit of a planet, and the gray area indicates a region not covered by the computational domain of the simulation.

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Kazuhiro Kanagawa, ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)

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