... a wide gap between the young parent star and an outer disk of dust. т??LkCa 15 b is the youngest planet ever found, about five ... They can then resolve disks of dust around stars and see gaps in the dusty layers where protoplanets may be hiding. т ...
... mystery: How do planets form from disks of dust and gas affected by the strong ... see the dark shadow cast as the dust in the disk absorbs background light from the ... as though the outer parts of this disk have less dust than we would have expected ...
... signature of silicate crystals on the disk of dust and gas surrounding the star EX ... from an infant star might anneal some of the silicate dust inside the disk's center ...
... Sun that are each surrounded by a disk of gas and dust from which planets could form ... dust, but also enable astronomers to measure how the gas is distributed in the disk ...
... debris disks around stars) since the 1980s, noted that т??the dust disappearance at ... provide a fresh infusion of dust particles into the disk, which then instigate a ...
... Gemini Planet Imager's first-light image of the light scattered by a disk of dust orbiting the young star HR4796A. This narrow ring is thought to be dust from asteroids or comets left behind by planet formation; some scientists have theorized that the ...
... emitted by a protoplanetary disk in the Orion Nebula called proplyd 170-337 shows hot, ionized gas (red) surrounding and streaming off of a disk (yellow), 1.3 mm radio observations by CARMA and SMA reveal the dustdisk hiding within the hot gas (contours ...
... This outer dustdisk likely contains as much mass as a medium-sized asteroid. ... In addition, the dustdisk (which is thicker than the known gaseous disk) blocks infrared light emitted by the compact central ...