The tests revealed traces of an ancient magnetic field preserved inside the grains. From those signals, the researchers ...

Astronomers frequently observe carbon monoxide in planetary nurseries. The compound is ultra-bright and extremely common in protoplanetary disks—regions of dust and gas where planets form around young ...

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 ...

A team of experienced experts discusses the significant role of interstellar dust in star and planet formation ...

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 ...

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 ...

What appears to be a cosmic tornado is actually a Herbig-Haro jet. Material is ejected from a young star perpendicular to a protoplanetary disk, thought to be driven by the magnetic fields interacting ...

The Webb Space Telescope is charged with imaging the cosmos at infrared and near-infrared wavelengths, so it should come as no surprise when it captures a familiar object in an entirely new way.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — New observations of the Orion Nebula at infrared wavelengths reveal that small dust grains located in disks around young stars are growing, taking the initial steps toward forming ...

Many newly formed stars are surrounded by what are called protoplanetary disks, swirling masses of warm dust and gas that can constitute the core of a developing solar system. Proof of the existence ...