Infant worlds carve gaps in planet-forming disk
New image bolsters theories about how solar systems form
![rings in disk of gas around star HL](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cc_HLTau_feat_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
PLANETARY BABY PICTURE Growing planets carve out rings in the disk of gas and dust that encircles a nearby young star in this image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
ALMA (NRAO, ESO, NAOJ), C. Brogan and B. Saxton (NRAO, AUI, NSF)