Astronomers Discover Unexpected Structures In Youngest Planetary Disks Ever Seen : ScienceAlert

How long does planet formation take? Maybe not as long as we thought, according to new research.

Observations with the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) show that planet formation around young stars may begin much earlier than scientists thought.

These new results were presented at the American Astronomical Society’s 243rd Meeting. Cheng-Han Hsieh, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale,…