Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to new planets. Not only is it the largest planet-forming disk astronomers ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the "largest protoplanetary disk ever imaged" known as IRAS 23077+6707 and ...
High above the Milky Way’s quiet spiral arms, the Hubble Space Telescope has zeroed in on a young stellar system that looks ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has imaged “Dracula’s Chivito,” the largest protoplanetary disk ever seen around a young star in visible light.
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...
"Hubble has given us a front row seat to the chaotic processes that are shaping disks as they build new planets — processes that we don't yet fully understand but can now study in a whole new way." ...