Newborn stars surround a planet-forming disk 450 million light years away
The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.
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Giant super-Jupiter planets could have very chaotic pasts
But in simulated star systems where newborn planets happened to spawn from unusually large clumps of gas, all the planets were enormous super-Jupiters. Dong says her team plans to use the Planet ...
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SPHERE Image of the Newborn Planet PDS 70b (IMAGE)
Caption This spectacular image from the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope is the first clear image of a planet caught in the very act of formation around the dwarf star PDS 70. The ...
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Giant super-Jupiter planets could have very chaotic pasts
When two giant planets collide, an even bigger world may ... of gas and dust in the cloud of material swirling around a newborn star) or started out small and achieved super-size status by merging ...
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A Rare Alignment of 7 Planets Is About to Take Place in The Sky
Some of the planets have orbits tilted slightly above or below this plane, but they're all more or less on the same level ...
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Sketch of the Protoplanetary Disk (IMAGE)
The large gap between the inner and the outer disk has most likely been carved out by one or more newborn planets that orbit the star. The planets themselves have not been detected -- yet.