circumstellar disks

This Star is Blasting Out a Concentrated Jet of Material at 500 km/s

MWC 349A is a star about 3,900 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It's huge, about 38 times as massive…

1 year ago

Another Collection of Newly Forming Planetary Systems. This Time from the Gemini Planet Imager

Over the next decade, several very powerful telescopes will come online. Observing time on these 'scopes will be in high…

4 years ago