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This image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array shows a central ring of matter and a crescent structure within the circumstellar disk around V1247 Orionis. Image credit: ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / S. Kraus, University of Exeter.

Astronomers Find Dust Trap in Circumstellar Disk around V1247 Orionis

Nov 28, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have identified a so-called dust trap — a region where dust particles can...