Interstellar environment
Protoplanetary Disks
The disks of gas and dust that surround young stars, out of which planets, moons, and comets form. Their chemistry — imaged in exquisite detail by ALMA — sets the raw ingredients that new planets and their atmospheres are built from.
Highlights
- ›Where the chemistry of new planets is set
Environments, telescopes & molecules
Across astrochemistry
Knowledge connections
- Associated withALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array)
- Associated withPlanet-Formation Chemistry
- Associated withWater
- Associated withPhotochemistry
- Associated withPlanet-Formation Chemistry
- Associated withCore Accretion
- Associated withDisk Instability
- Associated withPlanetary Migration
- Associated withThe Snow Line
- Associated withPebble Accretion
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- ESOEuropean Southern Observatory
Southern-hemisphere observatory data and imagery (VLT, ALMA partner).