A team of astronomers has achieved a breakthrough in observing planetary formation by directly tracking the rotation of a ...

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The rotation of a protoplanetary disk (a disk where planets are being formed) has been observed directly for the very first time by mapping the emissions from the dust grains within it. The disk in ...

Infant planets are ravenous little blighters that quickly devour what remains of the star-circling gas and dust clouds in which they form. The gas in these protoplanetary disks disappears rapidly, ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has discovered complex organic ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a strange disk of gas and dust around an infant star that could challenge current models of planet formation. The ...

"The scope of subjects that make up this volume primarily originates from a topical workshop on "Young Star Systems" that took place in April 2016 as part of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics."- ...