23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
...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 70 had already been flagged up as a potentially interesting system when in 2019, astronomers...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
... the collapse of the molecular cloud core or in the accretion disc surrounding the young star. An ice exoplanet Grain survival is dependent on its proximity to the host star, where the temperature in the hottest, inner regions of the disc can...
28 October 2016
Temperature is the key to showing how gas giants form say researchers
...in a similar manner to how stars are formed, a massive gaseous disk around a young star collapses due to self-gravity ...'s upper layer. This alters the observational appearance of young, forming planets, sufficiently enough to overestimate a planet's...
18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
... aluminum-26 produced in the nearest cluster of young stars across a spread of wavelengths. “These are challenging observations....able to visualise a flow of aluminum-26 from the nearby star cluster towards Ophiuchus. “The enrichment process we’re seeing in Ophiuchus...
02 August 2016
Astronomers detect large void in the centre of our Galaxy
...Galaxy and was found to contain no Cepheids, a type of young star between 10 and 300 million years old (compared with our Sun ... dust blocks out a lot of the visible light, thus hiding stars from view. This problem can be overcome by looking at light ...
03 November 2017
Dust belt hints at more planets around our nearest star
...exoworld orbiting at just four million kilometres from its parent star – Proxima Centauri – the faint red dwarf that lies...system. In combination with the study of protoplanetary discs around young stars, many of the details of the processes that led ...
