{"id":166554,"date":"2023-06-27T22:30:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-surprise-chemical-find-by-alma-may-help-detect-and-confirm-protoplanets"},"modified":"2023-06-27T22:30:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T03:30:45","slug":"a-surprise-chemical-find-by-alma-may-help-detect-and-confirm-protoplanets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-surprise-chemical-find-by-alma-may-help-detect-and-confirm-protoplanets","title":{"rendered":"A surprise chemical find by ALMA may help detect and confirm protoplanets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-surprise-chemical-find-by-alma-may-help-detect-and-confirm-protoplanets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the protoplanetary disk around a young star have discovered the most compelling chemical evidence to date of the formation of protoplanets. The discovery will provide astronomers with an alternate method for detecting and characterizing protoplanets when direct observations or imaging are not possible. The results will be published in an upcoming edition of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n<p>HD 169,142 is a young star located in the constellation Sagittarius that is of significant interest to astronomers due to the presence of its large, dust-and gas-rich circumstellar disk that is viewed nearly face-on. Several <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protoplanet\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protoplanet<\/a> candidates have been identified over the last decade, and earlier this year, scientists at the University of Li\u00e8ge and Monash University <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-04-hd-protoplanet-date.html\">confirmed<\/a> that one such candidate\u2014HD 169,142 b\u2014is, in fact, a giant Jupiter-like protoplanet.<\/p>\n<p>The discoveries revealed in a new analysis of archival data from ALMA\u2014an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/international+collaboration\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">international collaboration<\/a> in which the National Science Foundation\u2019s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is a member\u2014may now make it easier for scientists to detect, confirm, and ultimately characterize, protoplanets forming around <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/young+stars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">young stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the protoplanetary disk around a young star have discovered the most compelling chemical evidence to date of the formation of protoplanets. The discovery will provide astronomers with an alternate method for detecting and characterizing protoplanets when direct observations or imaging are not possible. The results [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}