Scientists on the hunt for planetary formation fossils reveal unexpected eccentricities in nearby debris disk: First radio images of HD 53143 shed new light on the early development of Sun-like systems - Science Daily

Astronomers have imaged the debris disk of the nearby star HD 53143 at millimeter wavelengths for the first time, and it looks nothing like they expected. Based on early coronagraphic data, scientists expected ALMA to confirm the debris disk as a face-on ring…

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have imaged the debris disk of the nearby star HD 53143 at millimeter wavelengths for the first time, and it looks nothing l… [+4056 chars]

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