Astronomers from the University of Warwick reveal a new phenomenon dubbed the "rocking shadow" effect that describes how disks in forming planetary systems are oriented, and how they move around their ...

Astronomers reveal a new phenomenon dubbed the 'rocking shadow' effect that describes how discs in forming planetary systems are oriented, and how they move around their host star. The effect also ...

Roughly 5 billion years ago Earth was in the process of forming. Gas and dust gathered with the young sun's protoplanetary disk, likely nudged a bit by the resonant gravitational pull of Jupiter and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers obtained high-contrast coronagraphic images of the protoplanetary disk around the young, nearby star TW Hydrae. Results of the observational ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and ...

Main: An illustration of a protoplanetary disk around an infant star. Inset: image of the star-forming region NGC 6357 with the young star XUE 10 as seen by the JWST. | Credit: (Main) ESO/L. Calçada ...

This fulldome rendering for planetarium use shows a protoplanetary disc, similar to the disc from which the planets of our Solar System formed. Amongst other details, the simulation shows the gap in ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining cutting-edge data from the ALMA observatory and ESA’s Gaia mission. Initially ...

Still from a simulation of a forming planetary disk. The images show the rotating inner disk along the top half, and the shadow it casts on the outer disk in the lower half. CREDIT Rebecca Nealon / ...