Understanding the odyssey of water from interstellar space down to the oceans on Earth is hard. Today’s paper has given us another key link in this process: the first detection of deuterated water ice in space.
How do you find a comet orbiting a star dozens or hundreds of light-years away? Join us today, as we look into this very question and what we can learn from finding these tiny, distant objects.
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How do astrophysicists research and model planet formation in protoplanetary discs? Learn how to simulate a protoplanetary disc using DustPy: software commonly used in state-of-the-art research!
The first set of high-resolution ALMA observations of exoKuiper belts has been released, and they reveal an unprecedented wealth of structure.
Astronomers have observed the abundance of heavy water (D2O) in the V883 Ori disc, providing a crucial insight into the history of water – with some implications for Earth’s water and maybe more…
In today’s post, guest author Matheus Bernini Peron explains how UV radiation from neighboring stars can hamper giant planet formation.