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ALMA Captures Spiral-Shaped Gas Streamer Guided by Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Region


This streamer of gas is channeling matter from the surrounding cloud of a star-forming region in Perseus directly onto a newborn binary star system called SVS13A.

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