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Here is a 'picture' taken from the ALMA Radio Telescope (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) of the start HL Tauri. It is not a particularly new image, but it represents not merely a visually stunning look at a planetary system forming around a young star, it represents the kinds of truly astounding advances that are being made in ground based observing at all wavelengths. The Telescope which took this image is actually an array of Radio Telescopes using interferometry to combine their separate images into a single high resolution image. This image, in fact, is clearer than can be obtained in visual light with the Hubble Space Telescope. From what we know of planetary formation, it is very likely at least some of the dark rings are gaps where planets are forming, where they have 'scouped up' the disk material as they grow.
Another in a long list of observations which must represent 'pretend', 'fake', or 'manufactured' elements of a 6000 year old universe.
ALMA_planetaryFormation_disk_eso1436a.jpg
And here - again - is another ALMA image of the planetary disk of star TW-Hydrae (probably uploaded by me in another thread given where it is on my computer :) )
TW-Hydrae-protoplanetary-close-in.jpg
Jim
Another in a long list of observations which must represent 'pretend', 'fake', or 'manufactured' elements of a 6000 year old universe.
ALMA_planetaryFormation_disk_eso1436a.jpg
And here - again - is another ALMA image of the planetary disk of star TW-Hydrae (probably uploaded by me in another thread given where it is on my computer :) )
TW-Hydrae-protoplanetary-close-in.jpg
Jim
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