"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

A team of astronomers recently discovered something they didn’t predict in a “cosmic hamburger” — one of the biggest ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star, a sprawling structure where gas ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

When it comes to observing protoplanetary disks, the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) is probably the champion. ALMA was the first telescope to peer inside the almost inscrutable ...

Archival ALMA data revealed a large, expanding bubble near the protoplanetary disk of the young star WSB 52, located approximately 441 light-years away. The bubble's formation is hypothesized to ...

We were astonished to see just how asymmetric this disk is,” says Joshua Bennett Lovell of the Center for Astrophysics. That ...