Science news articles about 'dusty disks'

... dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take ... constellation Orion. He noticed that the interior of the dusty disk -- a region comparable in size to our own ...

... allows faint adjacent signals – such as the light from dusty disks surrounding the star – to pass through ... Large Telescope Interferometer in Chile. The inner disk extends about 4 Astronomical Units (AU ...

Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as ... Planet Finder -- will study nearby stars with dusty disks. The models created by Stark and Kuchner ...

Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future telescopes may be able to ...

... . Wilner and his colleagues studied nine dusty disks surrounding young stars in a region ... scale as our own Solar System, and indicate that these disks are capable of producing planetary systems. Two ...

... us understand our origin. "Our solar system formed from a dusty disk, so by understanding the dynamics ... sunlight fade as the top edge of the solar disk appeared to touch the rings first. This would ...