March 21, 2016

ALMA image of HL Tau at left; VLA image, showing clump of dust, at right (Image Carrasco-Gonzalez, et al.; Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

An article submitted to “Astrophysical Journal Letters” describes a research on the forming planets in the HL Tauri system. An international team used the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to observe new details of what appear to be the first stages of the aggregation of dust and various materials around their star.