planet formation
VLA Shows Early Stages Of Planet Formation In Unprecedented Detail
Astronomers have captured the earliest image yet of the formation of planets around a young star.
- Astronomy
- Cosmology
- ESO
- Exoplanets
- Extrasolar Planets
- Infrared Astronomy
- Planetary Formation
- Stellar Evolution
ALMA Shows Off Baby Pictures… Baby Planets, That Is!
In a test of its new high resolution capabilities, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is happily sharing some family…
Astronomers Spot Pebble-Size Dust Grains in the Orion Nebula
Stars and planets form out of vast clouds of dust and gas. Small pockets in these clouds collapse under the…
Why Isn’t the Asteroid Belt a Planet?
It seems like there's a strange gap in between Mars and Jupiter filled with rocky rubble. Why didn't the asteroid…
Should This Alien World Even Exist? This Young Disk Could Challenge Planet-Formation Theories
Take a close look at the blurry image above. See that gap in the cloud? That could be a planet…
Hubble Observes Planet-“Polluted” Dead Stars In Hyades
For those of us who practice amateur astronomy, we're very familiar with the 150 light-year distant Hyades star cluster -…
Herschel Observatory Detects ‘Oceans’ of Water Around Distant Star
[/caption] There’s enough water in a planet-forming disk around a distant star to fill several thousand Earth oceans, according to…
Coming To A Solar System Near You… Super-Earth!
[/caption] It is our general understanding of solar system composition that planets fall into two categories: gas giants like Jupiter,…
Mysterious Alien Dust Hints at Violent Planet Formation
An artist's rendition of colliding planets, the most likely explanation for the warm dust observed around HD 131488. Image credit:…