Of course all of this builds on the initial success from the original ALMA long-baseline campaing that looked at HL Tau and found its protoplanetary disk in all its glory…

https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/revolutionary-alma-image-reveals-planetary-genesis/

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Revolutionary ALMA Image Reveals Planetary Genesis | ALMA Observatory

A new image from ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, reveals extraordinarily fine detail that has never been seen before in the planet-forming disc around a young star. ALMA’s new high-resolution capabilities were achieved by spacing the antennas up to 15 kilometers apart[1. Since September 2014 ALMA has been observing the Universe using its longest...