protoplanetary disk
This Exoplanetary System Breaks all the Rules
It's just like a normal solar system...except completely backwards. (more…)
Astronomers are now Finding Planetary Disks Around the Smallest, Least Massive Stars
Astronomers have been watching planetary systems form around sun-like stars for decades. And now, new observations with the ALMA telescope…
Spiral-shaped Planetary Disks Should Be More Common. Giant Planets Might Be Disrupting Their Formation
Planetary system formation is a process that involves astounding and complex forces. Humans have only just started trying to understand…
Astronomers See a Newly Forming Planetary Disk That’s Continuing to Feed On Material from its Nebula
Over the last few years, astronomers have observed distant solar systems in their early stages of growth. ALMA (Atacama Large…
Weekly Space Hangout: October 14, 2020, Drs. Jane Huang & Jonathan Williams, Protoplanetary Disks
This week we are joined by Dr. Jane Huang and Dr. Jonathan Willams from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard &…
Newly forming star has spiral arms like a tiny galaxy
Protoplanetary disks - where young stars are forming their families of planets - usually form concentric rings of gaps. But…
Planets Form in Just a Few Hundred Thousand Years
Astronomers like to observe young planets forming in circumstellar debris disks, the rotating rings of material around young stars. But…
Are the Gaps in These Disks Caused by Planets?
Astronomers like observing distant young stars as they form. Stars are born out of a molecular cloud, and once enough…
Planets Started Out From Dust Clumping Together. Here’s How
A new study by a team of German physicists and an American biomedical engineer has solved a long-standing problem in…
We Know We’re Made of Stardust. But Did it Come From Red Giants?
We've all heard this one: when you drink a glass of water, that water has already been through a bunch…