by APOD Robot » Tue Oct 17, 2023 4:08 am
PDS 70: Disk, Planets, and Moons
Explanation: It's not the big ring that's attracting the most attention. Although the big planet-forming ring around the star
PDS 70 is clearly imaged and itself quite interesting. It's also not the planet on the right, just inside the
big disk, thatâs being talked about the most. Although the planet
PDS 70c is a newly formed and, interestingly, similar in size and mass to
Jupiter. It's the fuzzy patch around the
planet PDS 70c that's
causing the commotion. That fuzzy patch is thought to be a
dusty disk that is now forming into moons -- and that had never been seen before. The
featured image was taken in 2021 by the
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) of 66
radio telescopes in the high
Atacama Desert of northern
Chile. Based on ALMA data,
astronomers infer that the moon-forming exoplanetary disk has a radius similar to our Earth's orbit, and may one day form three or so
Luna-sized moons -- not very different from our
Jupiter's
four.
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