Physics World posted an article earlier this week outlining the findings of CLEVER Planets co-investigator Andrea Isella, from Rice University, and his colleagues, who used the ALMA observatory radio-telescope array in Chile to image protoplanetary disks (spinning disks of dust and gas that make up the building-blocks of planets). With these data, they can learn about planetary formation. The article indicates that they have discovered that gas-giants may form much faster and earlier than thought and further away from their host stars than previously believed.
Read more about this research update on Physics World’s site here.