ALMA found nearly 4,000 New Exoplanets around Distant Stars
The dense rings of dust offer more time to young planetesimals to grow and become fully-fledged planets. The first large-scale, high-resolution survey Protoplanetary Disks by making use of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) yielded around 4,000 exoplanets. Some popular ones among them are massive rocky worlds, hot Jupiters, and icy dwarf planets. The Disk…