Friday, 29 March 2024

Random Thread: December 2014

Protoplanetary disk around HL Tauri

For the last in our series of space-themed Random Thread pictures, we go back to the beginning. This image, taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, shows the protoplanetary disk around HL Tauri, a young sunlike star 450 light-years from Earth. New planets forming around a new star — is that amazing, or what?

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