A Ring of Ice and Glows (around Fomalhaut)
ALMA has taken a brand-new image of Fomalhaut’s famous debris disk. What can we learn from it?
A New Glow in the Eye of Sauron
Folmahaut’s debris disk has been observed to have an unusual brightening in millimeter wavelengths.
Will the real Protoplanetary Disk Mass please stand up?
My name is Protoplanetary Disk Mass. I am important for determining what types of planets can form, where they can form, and how quickly they can form. Signed Protoplanetary Disk Mass.
Cradles of Massive Stars
Ever wondered what baby massive stars look like? Let’s find out!
Catching Galactic Recycling In The Act
This little galaxy is churning out the ingredients necessary for planets and life at a frantic pace. New observations reveal the sharpest view yet of this cycle of gas and stardust.
Unstable Birthplace – A Great Location for Forming Stellar Siblings
About half of all Sun-like stars have siblings, born into binary or multiple star families. Today’s paper presents the first observations of an important process in forming such systems – stars spawned from gravitational instability in a protostellar disk.