New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star, a sprawling structure where gas ...

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...

Learn more about IRAS 23077+6707, a protoplanetary disk, nicknamed Dracuala's Chivito, that may serve as a planet nursery and ...

Dracula's Chivito was detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and is located about 1,000 light-years from Earth.

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 ...

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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 ...

Top: An example of a protoplanetary nebula. – the Egg nebula Bottom left: An example of a planetary nebula – the Helix nebula. Bottom right: An example of a supernova remnant – SN 1006. Because ...