Astronomers Discover Rich Carbon Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disk Around Young Star An international team of astronomers has used Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk of gas and dust surrounding a young, very low-mass star, revealing the largest number of carbon-containing molecules ever observed in such a disk. It is a very different planet-forming environment than we usually …
Our sun and other stars form when a dense clump of interstellar gas and dust collapses under its own gravitational pull. Researchers said on Wednesday they have spotted such a disk around a star larger and more luminous than the sun residing in one of our nearest neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. "While we know of many stars like …
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astronomy, University of Sydney; and Jesse van de Sande, ARC DECRA Fellow in Astronomy, University of Sydney Canberra It’s no surprise the Milky Way is the most-studied galaxy in the universe, given it’s where we live. One crucial question that can’t be solved without looking farther afield is whether the Milky Way is a run-of-the-mill galaxy, …
Computer simulations are showing astrophysicists how massive clumps of gas within galaxies scatter some stars from their orbits, eventually creating the smooth, exponential fade in the brightness of many galaxy disks. Astrophysicists spill interesting facts on how disk galaxies evolve so smoothly Researchers from Iowa State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IBM Research have advanced studies they started nearly …
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