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Hubble confirms 400-billion-mile ‘planet factory’—largest ever dwarfs our solar system 40 times over
Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...
Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...
"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...
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A giant 'cosmic burger' may be cooking up new planets — and the implications are huge
The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...
Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...
Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...
University of North Carolina researchers have recently discovered a baby exoplanet that could challenge our current understanding of how planets form in newly-minted solar systems. Designated IRAS ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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 ...
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