NASA’s Webb Telescope Uncovers a 30-Million-Year-Old Planet Factory That Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about ...
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Cosmic anomaly: Webb Telescope finds ancient planetary disk that should have faded millions of years ago
Uncover the Webb Telescope's fascinating discovery of a 34-million-year-old planet-forming disk around a red star.
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Scientists Found A Baffling Object Around Vega, Our Stellar Neighbor
In 1984, the first debris disk orbiting another star was observed around Vega. Think of a debris disk as the leftovers from solar system formation, analogous to the asteroid or Kuiper belts.
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Planet-forming disks surrounding stars often last much longer than expected
Researchers discovered a planet-forming disk that lasted 30 million years. This challenges previous estimates of 10 million years.
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Webb reveals planet-forming disks can last longer than previously thought
the researchers ruled out the possibility that the disk around J0446B is a so-called debris disk, a longer-lasting type of disk that consists of second-generation material produced by collisions ...
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James Webb Telescope finds planet-forming disks last longer than expected
Astronomers have long believed that planet-forming disks—clouds of gas and dust around young stars—last only about 10 million ...
Webb Telescope: Planet-Forming Disks Last Longer
If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks of gas and dust ...
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How Long-Lasting Disks Might Affect Life Beyond Our Solar System
What can the protoplanetary disk’s lifetime teach us about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Jour | Space ...