An international team of astronomers has used HiCIAO (High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Optics) [Note 1] to observe a disk around the young star SAO 206462. They succeeded in ...

Various disk structures are marked. The green dotted contours mark the boundaries of the disk; the small circle at the center roughly marks the location of the star; the two green solid contours ...

Astronomers have found a distinct structure involving spiral arms in the reservoir of gas and dust disk surrounding the young star Elias 2-27. While spiral features have been observed on the surfaces ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

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Faint flickers in the night sky have puzzled astronomers for decades. These subtle changes in brightness come from violent ...

Traces of comets and asteroids in distant solar systems: In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris disk". The disk ...