Smaller gas giants are less likely to survive in such systems, surrounded by clashing planetary titans. With their lower ...

wavelengths can better see into the dust ring and reveal a concentration of dust to the north-west (upper right) where a new planet is forming. The paper concludes that the clump is being ...

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Researchers have unveiled a cosmic cycle where carbon, created in the explosions of stars, travels through space via a ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

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If the modern age of astronomy could be summarized in a few words, it would probably be "the age of shifting paradigms." ...

New data confirms Hubble's finding and refutes current theories of planet formation in the universe’s early days. Thanks to ...

Planets form through domino effect Date: December 13, 2024 Source: National Institutes of Natural Sciences Summary: New radio astronomy observations of a planetary system in the process of forming ...

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and those planets had time to form and grow big inside their primordial disks, even bigger than Jupiter. But how? This was puzzling. "With Webb, we have a really strong confirmation of what we saw ...

Compared to the previous observations (left), the new ALMA observations (right) at longer wavelengths can better see into the dust ring and reveal a concentration of dust to the north-west (upper ...