September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
..., or if it becomes involved in gravitational interactions with other young stars in the gas cloud, some stars are gravitationally bound to a companion star when they are born. These are the binary star systems. In any binary system, we label the more...
17 March 2017
Giant Jupiter-like planet gives a rare peek at alternative planet formation
...and where it formed. "This is such a young star; we have a snapshot of a baby star that just formed its planetary system," said Smadar Naoz..., and the study's other co-author. "We're seeing this young system revealed to us before it has had a chance ...
27 June 2016
Protoplanetary disc shares similarities with our own Solar System say researchers
... performing full spectral scans of young stellar objects embedded in protoplanetary discs. The young stellar object in question is HD 142527, a Herbig Ae/Be star located 145 parsecs away. Herbig stars are typically young stars (less than 10Myr) that...
15 February 2016
Astronomers provide new insights into planet formation around binary stars
...in Houston, Texas, showed analysis of a planet-forming disk around HD 142527, a binary star about 450 light-years from Earth in a cluster of young stars known as the Scorpius- Centaurus Association. Embedded in the outer reaches of the protoplanetary...
June 2015
Hubble’s 25th Anniversary
.... The dust and gas in the pillars is seared by the intense radiation from young stars and eroded by strong winds from massive nearby stars. With these new images comes better contrast and a clearer view for astronomers...
26 April 2016
Sulphur chemistry could be the key to clouds on many exoplanets
...models of a planet known as 51 Eri b, a young planet twice the mass of Jupiter, analysis strongly suggest...sequence F dwarf that is only 20 million years old and as a young star, it bathes its fledgling planets in amongst other things, UV radiation. ...
