... The Hubble visible-light image shows the outer disk of gas and dust around the star. ... observation of a forming planet still embedded in a thick disk of gas and dust ...
... this image shows light reflected off dust in a debris disk around the young star AU ... we conclude that the dust grains in the AU Mic debris disk formed by gentle ... Their paper on the dust in the AU Mic disk was published in the Jan. 1, 2007, issue ...
... think the disk's needle-like look is caused by dust particles following a highly ... think the disk's odd, imbalanced look is caused by dust following a highly ... Debris disks are produced by dust from collisions among protoplanetary bodies ...
... The compositions of planets and stars don t always match, she said, explaining that in a swirling disk of dust and gas giving birth to a star and planets, you can have pockets where there is a lot of water, meaning an enhancement of oxygen. ...
... Astronomers used polarized light from the disk to measure the fluffiness of the dust ... disk around a young star revealing the process by which planets grow from tiny dust ...
... Young stars, about a million years old, have a disk of both dust and gas orbiting them, but the gas tends to dissipate within a few million years and almost always within about 10 million years. ...