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 ...
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 ...
An international team of astronomers, led by Dutch scientists, has discovered a region in our Milky Way that contains many nitrogen compounds in the southeast of a butterfly-shaped star formation disk ...
A study led by Jenny Frediani at Stockholm University has revealed a planet-forming disk with a strikingly unusual chemical composition: an unexpectedly high abundance of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in ...
Sept. 6 (UPI) --In studying the movements of a trio of protostars in the Perseus molecular cloud, astronomers have gained new insights into the physical conditions that enable the formation of ...