A computer simulation image of HL Tau and its surrounding dusty, gassy disk. In the model the dense clump (top right) forms with a mass of about eight times that of Jupiter at a distance from the star about 75 times that from the Earth to the Sun. Credit: Greaves, Richards, Rice & Muxlow 2008

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