News Technology Science New link between water and planet formation revealed in study Scientists used a ground based telescope to find out how water affects planet formation around a distant young star. Water distribution in the HL Tauri disc. (ESO) Astronomers found water vapour in a disc around a young star, where planets could be …
Astronomers have mapped out a burger-shaped protoplanetary disk around a young star using the James Webb Space Telescope. The Ice Age team used a telescope to create the first detailed inventory of ice within a protoplanetary disk, the structure from which our solar system’s planets emerged around 4.5 billion years ago. Ardjan Sturm, the lead …
It takes a particular confluence of conditions for rocky planets like Earth to form, as not all stars in the universe are conducive to planet formation. Stars give off ultraviolet light, and the hotter the star burns, the more UV light it gives off. This radiation can be so significant that it prevents planets from …
2 In 2008, observations from NASA’s now-retired Spitzer infrared space telescope hinted at the presence of neon within the protoplanetary disk of Sun-like star SZ Chamaeleontis (SZ Cha). However, Spitzer’s instruments could not confirm whether this reading was correct. Over a decade after Spitzer’s results were published, the joint NASA, European Space Agency, and Canadian …