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Protoplanetary Disks Around Tiny Stars Are Chemically Distinct From Those Surrounding the Sun, May Influence Atmosphere of Forming Planets

SPACE 06.07.2024 04:40 AM

Protoplanetary disks around tiny stars have a unique chemical composition to those surrounding massive stars like the Sun. Continue reading to learn more.

Finding Extraterrestrial Life? Look for Binary Star Systems, Study Suggests

05.24.2022 07:30 AM

An international team of scientists discover new hints that would let us help find extraterrestrial life. Learn more about the theory and the possibility of finding a different life form in space.

Binary Star 980 Light Years Away Discovered with Three Exoplanet Systems in Early Stage

03.15.2022 06:37 AM

Planetary groups, like our solar system, forms with just a single parent star. Read on to know about three exoplanet systems forming around two separate stellar bodies.

How Did the Planets of Solar System Align on the Same Plane? Orbit Line-Up Explained 4.5 Billions of Years Ago

09.22.2021 06:45 AM

The planets in our solar system is aligned in a flat plane, but how did it ended up that way? The answer lies 4.5 billlion years ago.

Moon-Forming Disk Captured Around Exoplanets Resembling Saturn and Jupiter; PDS 70 System May Support Theories on How Planets and Moons Form

07.26.2021 05:52 AM

Astronomy experts discovered a distant system that is comprised of planets resembling Saturn and Jupiter. Both of the planets are in their early formation stage, with one of them having a moon-forming disk.

Gravitational Instability's Key Role in Planet Formation Revealed as Scientists Studies Young Star

06.18.2021 01:17 AM

Scientists using ALMA discovered the key role gravitational instability plays in planet formation while observing a young star known as Elias 2-27 in the Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud.

Researchers Found Methanol Around The Young Star TW Hydrae That Could Ultimately Lead To The Emergence Of Life

05.26.2017 13:04 PM

Methanol, a key building block for the complex organic compounds that comprise life, has been detected for the first time in the protoplanetary disk of a young, distant star.

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