09 June 2017
Key ingredients to life found around Sun-like stars
... the Netherlands and Audrey Coutens at University College London, United Kingdom. Along with a spectrographic analysis of the protostar’s light to determine the chemical constituents around IRAS 16293-2422, both teams conducted further tests in order...
13 June 2018
Novel technique helps discover three protoplanets around newborn star
Using a novel planet-finding technique, the strongest evidence yet of three young planets-in-the-making has been imaged by two independent teams of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). These fledgling planets – ...
22 December 2015
Magnetic fields around protostar gives a new twist on star formation
... Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a co-author of the paper. This system containing NGC1333 IRAS 4A is actually made up of two protostars in a circumbinary envelope that contains material with a total mass more than twice that of our Sun. Observations...
02 February 2016
First detected hot corino in Orion sheds light on low-mass star formation processes
... in a rotating and infalling envelope and is the only protostar where both a bright bipolar jet and a compact rotating disk...winds and outflowing material, not infalling material onto the protostar, a scenario favoured by previous studies. It is likely...
29 June 2016
Researchers detect interstellar organic materials being fed into a young planetary system
... of a system known as L1527, whereby a similar ring structure of SO (sulfur monoxide) was detected around another Solar-type protostar. In this source, SO preferentially exists in the boundary between the infalling gas and the disk structure, while...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
...that the observed properties of cloud cores with an embedded protostar are consistent with the formation of discs that can rival ... of discs lacking these two excesses indicate that the fledgling protostar is on its way to becoming a pre-main sequence ...
