Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

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

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

The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.

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

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Astronomers have long struggled to find young planets hidden inside the thick clouds of gas and dust that swirl around new stars. These swirling clouds—called protoplanetary discs—are the birthplaces ...

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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 ...