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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Stellar carbon monoxide, ALMA radio telescope image. This ALMA image shows the region where carbon monoxide snow (CO, green) has formed around the star TW Hydrae (180 light years distant in the constellation of Hydra). The CO begins at a distance of more than 30 astronomical units from TW Hydrae. It is an essential component of planetary and comet formation, as well as for the the creation of methanol, a fundamental building block required for life. ALMA (the Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array) is an array of 66 radio telescopes in Chile's Atacama desert. The images are combined by interferometry. Image published in 2013.
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