Jess Speedie was part of a team that found proof of planets forming around gravitationally unstable stars
Jess Speedie, a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria , has helped solve one of the universe's many mysteries.
For decades, however, others have theorized that planets can form in another way, as result of gravitational instability in a star’s disk. In these cases, some physicists and astronomers argued that the gaseous Frisbees can be so massive and dense that matter can drift away from stars, resulting in the formation of spiral arms.
To put her prediction to the test, in 2022, Hall and a team of 10, which included Speedie and Ruobing Dong, an assistant professor of astronomy and physics at UVic, secured time on the Atacama Large Millimeter Array , a telescope located in a high-elevation desert in northern Chile.
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