A closer look at “Gomez's Hamburger: ALMA Reveals Rare Edge-On View of Giant Planet Birth”, exactly as the source publishes it. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have captured a rare edge-on view of a protoplanetary disk nicknamed Gomez's Hamburger, or GoHam, revealing the earliest stages of giant planet formation. The system, located roughly 900 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, appears as two bright buns of gas and dust with a dark lane between them—the disk seen perfectly edge-on. This orientation allows scientists to probe the vertical structure of the disk, where planets may be coalescing.
The discovery, reported by an international team, shows dense layers of material that could be the birthplaces of Jupiter-like worlds. Because most disks are observed at an angle, this edge-on perspective is a rare opportunity to study how dust settles and clumps in the midplane. For the complete material, the listing points back to the source inside the network.