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Researchers studying a distant star forming within a dusty cloud have found an abundance of water in its immediate vicinity, which could have implications for the origins of the water in our own solar ...

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) scientists of the Leiden Observatory (the ...

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What appears to be a cosmic tornado is actually a Herbig-Haro jet. Material is ejected from a young star perpendicular to a protoplanetary disk, thought to be driven by the magnetic fields interacting ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — New observations of the Orion Nebula at infrared wavelengths reveal that small dust grains located in disks around young stars are growing, taking the initial steps toward forming ...

Many newly formed stars are surrounded by what are called protoplanetary disks, swirling masses of warm dust and gas that can constitute the core of a developing solar system. Proof of the existence ...

In the surroundings of a young star located 444 light years away, a team of astronomers found what may be the precursor to life itself. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in ...

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 ...

Accretion discs around young stellar objects serve as the birthplaces of planets, comprising gas and dust in a rotating structure governed by the transport of angular momentum and viscous forces.