Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...
Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...
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Super-low-density worlds reveal how common planetary systems form
Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...
"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...
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Strange discovery offers 'missing link' in planet formation: 'This fundamentally changes how we think about planetary systems'
A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...
Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...
At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...
New research tracks young planets around a nearby star, showing how large, gas-rich worlds shrink over time to become the most common planets in the galaxy ...
Key takeawaysPlanets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar ...
New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...
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Destroyed planet? Giant iron bar found in the Ring Nebula may be a vaporized planet
Have you ever seen a cloud made of iron? You may not believe it, but deep inside a nebula that astronomers have studied for ...
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