HL Tauri

newborn star and planet-forming disk

450 light-years from Earth

A star less than a million years old. Its disk of dust is already carved into rings and gaps, probably by young planets sweeping up material. Colours show the dust glow ALMA sees.

• disk ~240 AU across · gaps at 13, 32, 42, 50, 64, 74, 81 AU
• 450 light-years away in Taurus

kind

nebula