Recently, it has been proposed that pebbles play a crucial in the formation of rocky cores that are large enough to accrue a large atmosphere and become gas giants like Jupiter. Do strong magnetic winds make things more difficult?
Could Gaia’s immense catalog of stellar positions help us find extraterrestrial intelligence?
Tabetha Boyajian calls it “the most mysterious star in the universe.” Has she figured it out?
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.
Today we try to get a sense of what near-in and hot dust disks are like around other stars. Aside from being interesting in its own right, the nature of ‘exozodis’ will offer more clarity for planning exoplanet direct-imaging missions.
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.