Protoplanetary Disk

December 7, 2022
CreditNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, A. Boley, A. Kritsuk and M. Norman
Historical DateApril 14, 2021
Language
  • english

This visualization shows the evolution of a young, isolated protoplanetary disk over 16,000 years, including the start of planetary formation. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, A. Boley, A. Kritsuk and M. Norman