00:00NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the largest planet-forming disk ever seen.
00:06Located roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth, this protoplanetary disk, nicknamed Dracula's
00:12Civito, spans nearly 400 billion miles, 40 times the diameter of the solar system to
00:19the outer edge of the Kuiper belt of cometary bodies.
00:23A protoplanetary disk is a giant ring of gas and dust, where material clumps together to
00:29form new worlds.
00:31This one is so massive that astronomers think it could build multiple gas giants, like a
00:36scaled-up version of our own early solar system.
00:39Nicknamed Dracula's Civito, the disk's playful name comes from its discoverers, one from Transylvania
00:47and another from Uruguay, where the national dish is a sandwich called a Civito, similar
00:52to a hamburger for you English speakers watching.
00:55Seen edge on, it definitely looks like a cosmic hamburger, with a dark middle lane and glowing
01:01layers above and below.
01:03Hubble revealed wispy structures and uneven features that may be caused by a hidden pair
01:08of binary stars tugging at the disk.
01:11Thanks to Hubble, we now can see this disk's surprising scale and detail.
01:16Dracula's Civito is not just the largest protoplanetary disk ever imaged.
01:21It's also a window into how planets are born and how systems like ours began.
01:26You can see this is totally the largest protoplanetary spot, because the meteorological表示
01:29is an illusion of a size of weird habitat, and if you see what planets are born and how other
01:29planets are born and you can live, you can live, you can live, you can live, you can live, you
01:32can live, you can live, you can live, you can live, you can live, you can live.
01:46You
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