HL Tauri Observes Water Vapor in a Young Star

HL Tauri Observes Water Vapor in a Young Star

Astronomy Magazine

ALMA detected and captured a detailed image of the disc orbiting a sun-like star, called HL Tauri, holding oceans of water vapor at levels three times as much as all of Earth’s oceans just within its inner-most region. The new observations came from Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope. It’s been suspected that icy pebbles travel inwards from the colder, outer regions of a protoplanetary disk through friction

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