A New, Scattered-Light View of Planet-Forming Disks
New scattered-light images reveal striking substructure in circumstellar disks around nearby low-mass stars.
Building Planets Around a Black Hole
We all know planets form around stars, can planet formation occur around something much more exotic?
A New Technique for Finding Newly Formed Exoplanets
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
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
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??
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?