27 October 2016
Rare newly forming triple star system observed by astronomers
... star formation.” The two main theories that Tobin refers to are either small scale fragmentation of a massive protostellar disk due to gravitational instability or larger scale fragmentation of turbulent gas cores and filaments. More evidence from...
02 February 2016
First detected hot corino in Orion sheds light on low-mass star formation processes
... dust grains, it is suggested that the COMs are predominantly associated to the protostellar envelope and not to a protostellar disk (progenitors of the protoplanetary disks observed at later stages) and are released in the warm inner envelope around...
20 April 2017
ALMA research team captures first clear image of accretion disk around a star
...research team has described the accretion disk as very similar to a hamburger. The complete study of the accretion disk image, “First detection of equatorial dark dust lane in a protostellar disk at submillimeter wavelength”, was published in Science...
