68: Birth Of A Planet

 
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The planets we see around us in the galaxy haven't just been hanging around forever, you know. We're pretty sure they must have formed at some point in the past, and more are forming right now, presumably. But it's a rare treat to actually see a planet's birth in progress, which is what astronomers have managed to do recently — in staggering detail!

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Things we talked about in this episode:

ESO release on the research

The ALMA telescope observations of 2017

ESO video zooming into the stettar disc

The SPHERE instrument

The Snow Line, a.k.a. the Frost Line

The Extremely Large Telescope

The cancelled Overwhelmingly Large Telescope

Telescope names by xkcd