A bright ring of dust circling a young star can look calm from far away. In reality, it may mark one of the messiest moments ...
University of Warwick astronomers have found a new way to estimate the masses of planets hidden inside the dusty disks surrounding young stars.
Simulation of a planet embedded in a protoplanetary disc, causing disc material to pile up in a ring exterior to its orbit – ...
Still from a simulation of a forming planetary disk. The images show the rotating inner disk along the top half, and the shadow it casts on the outer disk in the lower half. CREDIT Rebecca Nealon / ...
A team of astronomers, led by University of Warwick in collaboration with researchers at MIT and McMaster, have developed a ...
Still from a simulation of a forming planetary disk. The images show the rotating inner disk along the top half, and the shadow it casts on the outer disk in the lower half. CREDIT Rebecca Nealon / ...