Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...
A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...
"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...
Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...
Archival ALMA data revealed a large, expanding bubble near the protoplanetary disk of the young star WSB 52, located approximately 441 light-years away. The bubble's formation is hypothesized to ...
Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...
Many newly formed stars are surrounded by what are called protoplanetary disks, swirling masses of warm dust and gas that can constitute the core of a developing solar system. Proof of the existence ...