Star formation is an intricate process that transforms vast molecular clouds into newborn stars, often accompanied by the formation of circumstellar discs composed of gas and dust. These ...

Astronomers have gotten very good at spotting the signs of planet formation around stars. But for a complete understanding of planet formation, we also need to study examples where planet formation ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist. New research, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, is set to reshape ...

Identifying the formation period of planetary systems, such as our solar system, could be the beginning of the journey to discover the origin of life. The key to this is the unique substructures found ...

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Stars and their planets form when large molecular clouds collapse in on themselves. Gravity pulls the dust and gas into a violent spiral, which flattens out into a structure known as a protoplanetary ...

Artist's impression of a massive star-forming region in the NGC 6357 nebula, with the planet-forming disk XUE1 in the foreground. The region is drenched in intense ultraviolet light from massive stars ...

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Three years ago, Carnegie University astronomers examining a small star called a red dwarf found something unexpected: a ...

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Even under intense ultraviolet radiation from giant stars, the raw ingredients for planets can endure. Using Webb s powerful infrared eyes, astronomers examined a young star in the Lobster Nebula and ...