The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...
The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.
"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...
Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to new planets. Not only is it the largest planet-forming disk astronomers ...
Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...
Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...
A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new ...
Learn more about IRAS 23077+6707, a protoplanetary disk, nicknamed Dracuala's Chivito, that may serve as a planet nursery and ...