Melissa McClure
Melissa McClure is a prominent astronomer and faculty member at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She specializes in the study of protoplanetary disks and the formation of planetary systems. Recently, she led a groundbreaking study published in Nature, which reported the first observation of the early stages of planet formation around a star beyond our solar system, using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Argentina:
Melissa McClure is a professor at Leiden University and the lead author of the study.
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Liechtenstein:
Melissa McClure is the lead author of the study published in Nature about the formation of planets around a star.
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Ukraine:
Melissa McClure is the leader of the research group from Leiden University.
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Morocco:
Melissa McClure is a co-author of the study that observed the protoplanetary disk around the star HOPS-315.
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Paraguay:
Melissa McClure is a researcher at Leiden University and the lead author of the new study.
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United Kingdom:
Melissa McClure of Leiden Observatory led the international research team that discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star.
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Pakistan:
Melissa McClure is the lead study author who identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun.
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Ecuador:
Melissa McClure is the lead author of the new study published in Nature.
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