A team of astronomers has achieved a breakthrough in observing planetary formation by directly tracking the rotation of a ...

A bright ring of dust circling a young star can look calm from far away. In reality, it may mark one of the messiest moments ...

Researchers studying a distant star forming within a dusty cloud have found an abundance of water in its immediate vicinity, which could have implications for the origins of the water in our own solar ...

The rotation of a protoplanetary disk (a disk where planets are being formed) has been observed directly for the very first ...

What appears to be a cosmic tornado is actually a Herbig-Haro jet. Material is ejected from a young star perpendicular to a protoplanetary disk, thought to be driven by the magnetic fields interacting ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — New observations of the Orion Nebula at infrared wavelengths reveal that small dust grains located in disks around young stars are growing, taking the initial steps toward forming ...

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 ...

In the surroundings of a young star located 444 light years away, a team of astronomers found what may be the precursor to life itself. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in ...

ALMA has spotted ring and spiral structures in protoplanetary disks just 300,000 or so years old. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Accretion discs around young stellar objects serve as the birthplaces of planets, comprising gas and dust in a rotating structure governed by the transport of angular momentum and viscous forces.

How do you weigh a planet you can't see? Astronomers may have the answer and it involves "reading between the rings," the ...

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