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A Major Asymmetric Dust Trap in a Transition Disk

A Major Asymmetric Dust Trap in a Transition Disk

From Dust Grains to Planets Almost 900 extrasolar planets have been identified, but we still struggle to understand exactly how planets form. Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, van der Marel et al. (p. 1199 ; see the Perspective by Armitage ) report a highly asymmetric distribution of …