Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

Rich in gas and dust, a protoplanetary disk is where planets — both rocky worlds, like Earth, and gas giants, like Jupiter — ...

"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 ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

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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 ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages of our own solar system. However, most of these discoveries lie within our ...

PASADENA, Calif.–Water is an essential ingredient for forming planets, yet has remained hidden from scientists searching for it in protoplanetary systems, the spinning disks of particles surrounding ...