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A New, Scattered-Light View of Planet-Forming Disks

A New, Scattered-Light View of Planet-Forming Disks

by Charles Law | Dec 3, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries

New scattered-light images reveal striking substructure in circumstellar disks around nearby low-mass stars.

Building Planets Around a Black Hole

Building Planets Around a Black Hole

by Ellis Avallone | Oct 7, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries

We all know planets form around stars, can planet formation occur around something much more exotic?

A New Technique for Finding Newly Formed Exoplanets

A New Technique for Finding Newly Formed Exoplanets

by Jessica Roberts | Sep 17, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries

We have found thousands of fully-formed planets, but how do we go about finding those that are hiding in their disks?

Dust Accretion & Double Suns

Dust Accretion & Double Suns

by Lauren Sgro | Sep 9, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries

Exoplanets have been the proverbial apples of astronomers’ eyes for some time now. But what about planets that orbit not one star, but two? Read today’s astrobite to learn more about where and how such planets form!

Cloudy with a chance of wind

Cloudy with a chance of wind

by Stephanie Hamilton | Sep 4, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries

How does gravity tell us about the winds in a planet’s atmosphere? Read on to find out!

Why are Jupiter and Saturn Spinning so Slowly??

Why are Jupiter and Saturn Spinning so Slowly??

by Jenny Calahan | Aug 21, 2019 | Daily Paper Summaries

Our gas giants spin slower than one might expect. Turns out gas giants outside of our solar system are also slower than originally what we might have thought! Today’s astrobite answers the question: What’s up with dat?

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