Capture the clearest picture to form planets around a star


Pick up the space scientists the clearest picture ever, a group of planets forming around a star, may help in understanding how the Earth is more than 4 billion a year ago.

At the center of the picture, "DHL Tauri" appears, which is less than a million-year-old star is not much different in composition from the sun, surrounded by flaming circles of ash and gases, and in those circles are no dark rings, each representing one of which orbits the future of the planet.

Image has been captured by the large Alumblymitri Atacama Observatory (Alma) north of Chile fact, scientists say that this picture will be a wide step on the road to uncover the secrets of the emergence of the planets.

Said Catherine Vllaghakis Observatory scientist: "When we saw the picture for the first time, we were stunned by how much detail it. Tauri star DHL has not yet reached the age of a million a year. Although it seems planets rotating disk is full."



Said Tim de Zeeuw, Director General of the European Southern Observatory, said that such a high-quality image "can help us understand how the Earth was formed more than 4 billion a year."

It is noteworthy that the star "El HP Tauri" away from the distance of the Earth 450 light-years away, while the surrounding circles circumference 3 times the orbit of the planet Neptune, another large planets in the solar system.




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