Free Astronomy Magazine May-June 2020

24 MAY-JUNE 2020 SPACE CHRONICLES How newborn stars prepare for the birth of planets A n international team of as- tronomers used two of the most powerful radio tele- scopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of by ALMA Observatory A LMA and the VLA observed more than 300 protostars and their young proto- planetary disks in Orion. This image shows a subset of stars, including a few bi- naries. The ALMA and VLA data compliment each other: ALMA sees the outer disk structure (visualized in blue), and the VLA observes the inner disks and star cores (or- ange). [ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Tobin; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; Herschel/ESA]