BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

HL Tauri

PROTOPLANETARY DISK · planets under construction
HL Tauri
AI illustration of the real object
AGE under a million yearsFAMOUS FOR the rings in the ALMA image

A baby star wrapped in a disk of gas and dust, photographed by the ALMA observatory in an image that stunned astronomers: crisp bright rings separated by dark gaps, most likely lanes swept clean by newborn planets. Nobody expected worlds to form this fast. HL Tauri is a snapshot of what our own solar system looked like 4.6 billion years ago.

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