Astronomers reveal a new phenomenon dubbed the 'rocking shadow' effect that describes how discs in forming planetary systems are oriented, and how they move around their host star. The effect also ...

Astronomers from the University of Warwick reveal a new phenomenon dubbed the "rocking shadow" effect that describes how disks in forming planetary systems are oriented, and how they move around their ...

Roughly 5 billion years ago Earth was in the process of forming. Gas and dust gathered with the young sun's protoplanetary disk, likely nudged a bit by the resonant gravitational pull of Jupiter and ...

This fulldome rendering for planetarium use shows a protoplanetary disc, similar to the disc from which the planets of our Solar System formed. Amongst other details, the simulation shows the gap in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and ...

ALMA image of the disc around the young star TW Hydrae (Credit: S. Andrews (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA); B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)) This new image from the Atacama Large ...

New research has confirmed that the celestial object may be the biggest of its kind ever found Riley Black | Science Correspondent The planet-forming disk is made of gas and dust. Radio: SAO/ASIAA/SMA ...

Still from a simulation of a forming planetary disk. The images show the rotating inner disk along the top half, and the shadow it casts on the outer disk in the lower half. CREDIT Rebecca Nealon / ...