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 …
The James Webb Space Telescope has helped detect water in a young planetary system, known as PDS 70 which is 370 light-years away. According to a report by CNN, the planetary system has a star at its center and astronomers have detected water vapors in the inner disk, less than 100 million miles from the star. Combined with our detection …
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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 …
