Most if not all newly formed stars have protoplanetary disks of gas & dust circling around them. More about the HL Tauri planet which forming in the gaps.
May 25th: The Curious Case of the Missing Planets Around Gas and Dust Rings
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Mar 30th: This Spanish Dancer Twirls in a Cosmic Ballet
Today we bring you space scoop about the magnificent galaxy NGC 1566, nicknamed the “Spanish Dancer”. More at #365DaysofAstro
Feb 26th: This ‘cosmic spider’ spews gamma-rays!
A team of astronomers has just found a bright, uh, “spider” of a sort, in the sky. More about this very unusual binary system at #365DaysOfAstro. @UNAWE
Jan 29th: This Cosmic Eruption Could Help Planets Grow
Today’s news: cosmic eruption fall back all around its young star, and helping form new planets in its outer regions
Dec 30th: This One-Winged Cosmic Butterfly Holds a Baby Star
Astronomers using the Gemini South Observatory in Chile have captured beautiful mix of dust and gas kinda looks like a butterfly with a single wing hiding a baby star.
Dec 8th: These exo-rocks are stranger than fiction
By studying white dwarf stars, and finding some of them, well, in a way polluted, astronomers have found that most rocky exoplanets are made of rocks we can’t find anywhere in our Solar System.
Nov 11th: A Stellar Ballet
Astronomers in Japan studied data that ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, collected on a binary star system, XZ Tauri, for over three years, in 2015, 2016 and 2017. And with that volume of data, they’ve produced the first-ever “ALMA Animation” of the twin stars in a binary star system circling each other.
Oct 30th: A Clash of Giants
In the future, NGC 1427A, an irregular galaxy, will clash with two bright galaxies next to it, NGC 1399 and NGC 1404. More about it at #365daysOfAstro @unawe #spacescoop
Oct 14th: Encore: Are We Alone
Are we alone? Well, that’s the biggest question in science that I can think of anyway. So what’s the answer? Well, the short answer is “We don’t know.” Let’s dig more on today’s #365DaysOfAstro
Sep 30th: Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin
Today we feature Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin, woman astronomer & astrophysicist who proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.