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Cosmic construction zone 🚧

Misaligned gas-and-dust disks around the young star TW Hydrae are likely caused by the gravitational pull of two developing planets in slightly different orbital planes.

Hubble observed shadows cast on the disks as a result: https://go.nasa.gov/3AQElSV
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Hubble Follows Shadow Play Around Planet-Forming Disk

The young star TW Hydrae is playing "shadow puppets" with scientists observing it with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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