The spinning origins of a planetary system!
Taken with our Very Large Telescope in #Chile over a period of four years, these images show the rotating disc of gas and dust around the young star AB Aurigae.
There are features like “twists” signalling the places where planets could be forming, as well as radial shadows cast by dense clumps of material.
Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2622a/
📹 ESO/A. Boccaletti et al.
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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