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

The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

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 ...

We were astonished to see just how asymmetric this disk is,” says Joshua Bennett Lovell of the Center for Astrophysics. That understatement frames one of the most remarkable protoplanetary systems ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Star formation is an intricate process that transforms vast molecular clouds into newborn stars, often accompanied by the formation of circumstellar discs composed of gas and dust. These ...

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

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 ...

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