This is absolutely astonishing - it's rare in astronomy to see so much change on a human timescale, but this really shows how dynamic the gas and dust around a young star can be. Seeing the shadows from the inner regions cast out onto the outer spiral arms, amazing!
Matthew Kenworthy
Taken with our VLT over a period of four years, these images show the rotating disc of gas & dust around the young star AB Aurigae.
Features like “twists” signal the places where #exoplanets could be forming 🪐
More: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2622a/
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📹 ESO/A. Boccaletti et al.
