23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
... stars and now it has gone one better by detecting the presence of something much smaller; a disk around a planet known as a circumplanetary disc. The disk in question surrounds one of two massive exoplanets orbiting a young star known as PDS 70. PDS...
28 October 2016
Temperature is the key to showing how gas giants form say researchers
... built the given planet," explains Szulágyi. It was also previously thought that the mass of the circumplanetary disk that feeds the growing gas giant must be different for the two different formation scenarios, however...
