A newborn star buried deep inside the Orion Nebula is feeding on a giant, dusty “space hamburger,” researchers have discovered. This astronomical sandwich is actually an accretion disk, or a cloud of ...

Before something like the Solar System can be born, things in the general neighborhood start out as something known as a protostellar disk. These objects are essentially flat accretions of dust and ...

Researchers have found that baby stars discharge plumes of gas, dust, and magnetic flux from their protostellar disk. The protostellar disk that surrounds developing stars are constantly penetrated by ...

Dr. LU Xing, an associate researcher from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from Yunnan University, the Harvard-Smithsonian ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Astronomers theorize that stars and their planets are born when a ...

RIKEN astrophysicists may have identified the embryos of gas giant planets in a disk of gas and dust swirling around a newborn star 1. These planetary precursors may grow up to be similar to Jupiter, ...

The disk that surrounds newly forming stars shoots out material that could impact its future development. By Laura Baisas Published Apr 11, 2024 8:45 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

A newborn star buried deep inside the Orion Nebula is feeding on a giant, dusty "space hamburger," researchers have discovered. This astronomical sandwich is actually an accretion disk, or a cloud of ...

A close encounter more than 10,000 years ago stirred up spirals in the accretion disk surrounding the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Dr. LU Xing, an associate researcher from the Shanghai ...

A schematic view of the history of the accretion disk and the intruding object. The three plots starting from the bottom left are snapshots from the numerical simulation, depicting the system at the ...