Astronomers had long been searching for comet-like objects entering the Solar System from the vastness of interstellar space, but had never before observed one.
When new planets form in distant solar systems, they carve out hurricanes and vortices in the surrounding dust that could lead astronomers straight to them.
Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, astronomers have developed a new technique to measure and date infant exoplanets forming in turbulent protoplanetary d
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