Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...
Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...
Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes.
Planetary systems begin in chaos. In their primitive form, many rocky and icy objects are careening through space, smashing ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has detected the most expansive protoplanetary disk documented to date, extending across 400 ...
Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted the glowing remains of two space rocks crashing together in a nearby planetary system, a rare cosmic event that looked like a planet at first but was actually the ...
Joshua Bennett Lovell, who is a co-investigator, said that they were "stunned" to see how asymmetric this disk is.
What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.