Oldest known planet-forming disk discovered
Saturday, October 22, 2016 - 09:33
in Astronomy & Space
A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers joined forces to discover an unusual hunting ground for exoplanets. They found a star surrounded by the oldest known circumstellar disk -- a primordial ring of gas and dust that orbits around a young star and from which planets can form as the material collides and aggregates.