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 ...

NASA’s Hubble captured images of IRAS 23077+6707, the largest known protoplanetary disk, revealing its structure, asymmetry, and potential for forming multiple gas giant planets.

"Hubble has given us a front row seat to the chaotic processes that are shaping disks as they build new planets — processes ...

For the first time ever, scientists detect snow-like ice in deep space, surrounding a newborn planetary system and reshaping ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages of our own solar system. However, most of these discoveries lie within our ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered the largest protoplanetary disk ever, nicknamed Dracula’s Chivito, about 1,000 light-years from Earth. It is 40 times bigger than our solar ...

This results in a composition that is “unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent.” “These new Hubble images show that planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than we expected,” Kristina Monsch, ...

When it comes to observing protoplanetary disks, the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) is probably the champion. ALMA was the first telescope to peer inside the almost inscrutable ...

Archival ALMA data revealed a large, expanding bubble near the protoplanetary disk of the young star WSB 52, located approximately 441 light-years away. The bubble's formation is hypothesized to ...