In planet formation, it's location, location, location Date: May 28, 2020 Source: ... This information is important for building models of planet formation and stellar evolution." ...

Upgraded ALMA images expose hidden rings and spirals around baby stars, indicating planets begin taking shape mere cosmic ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope researchers have conducted a pioneering 3-year study of the massive dense young star cluster Westerlund 2. ... planet formation is stunted in these regions.

In a groundbreaking new study, astronomers have observed the birth of baby planets in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, located just 460 light-years from Earth. This discovery, made possible by ...

Astronomers have used the ALMA radio telescope to investigate how planets grow in protoplanetary disks of gas and dust around young stars.

The Planet formation and evolution group at Queen Mary is involved in world leading theoretical and observational research in planet formation and evolution, ... N-nody planet formation models and the ...

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...

Modeling planet formation Origins of underlying theory go back a couple centuries. The notion that our solar system’s planets emerged from a swirling disk of gas and dust dates back more than 2 ...

That was a bit surprising, and it shows that our widely accepted picture of planet formation was too simplified." The protoplanetary disk around the star PDS 70, the home of the baby exoplanets ...