An aAtual and a 'Synthetic' Observation (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

An aAtual and a 'Synthetic' Observation

Caption

The image on the left is an actual ALMA observation of the protoplanetary disk around HL Tauri, a million-year-old sunlike star located approximately 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus. On the right is a 'synthetic observation' resulting from a simulation with one super-Earth by Ruobing Dong et al.

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ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO and Ruobing Dong

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