debris disks
Astronomers Directly Image Debris Disk and find a Jupiter-Sized Planet Orbiting a Sunlike Star
The SHINE collaboration recently observed a Super-Jupiter within a young debris orbiting a nearby star. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Weiss…
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…
Astronomers See the Wreckage from a Collision Between Exoplanets
The history of our Solar System is punctuated with collisions. Collisions helped create the terrestrial planets and end the reign…
The Oldest and Coldest White Dwarf Ever Found has Bizarre Dust Rings Around it
A citizen scientist recently discovered a white dwarf star that has multiple dust rings, a finding which could force a…
New Ideas for the Mysterious Tabby’s Star: a Gigantic Planet or a Planet With Rings
Tabby's Star is dimming again, and two new studies have been released that offer new and interesting theories on what…
Hubble Images Three Debris Disks Around G-type Stars
A new study probes the circum-stellar disks structures (CDSs) around 3 Sun-like stars to try to better understand the structure…
Search for Planetary Nurseries in the Latest Citizen Science Project
Growing up, my sister played video games and I read books. Now that she has a one-year-old daughter we constantly…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Alien Mining
[/caption] Recently, some researchers speculated on what types of observational data from distant planetary systems might indicate the presence of…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Our Unlikely Solar System
[/caption] Recent modeling of Sun-like stars with planetary systems, found that a system with four rocky planets and four gas…