An international team of astronomers has used HiCIAO (High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Optics) [Note 1] to observe a disk around the young star SAO 206462. They succeeded in ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...
Various disk structures are marked. The green dotted contours mark the boundaries of the disk; the small circle at the center roughly marks the location of the star; the two green solid contours ...
Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.
Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to discover the tale-telling signs of planets in the young, likely planet-forming disk around the star MWC 758. They obtained ...