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Baby-planets around a nearby star

Baby-planets around a nearby star

This graphic is an artist’s conception of the young massive star HD100546 and its surrounding disk. Image Credit: P. of Marenfeld & NOAO/AURA/NSF An international team including ETH scientists has discovered for new evidence that planets are forming around a  star about 335 light years from Earth. The team found emission from carbon monoxide molecules […]

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Formation of a planetary system

Formation of a planetary system

Image at 7 mm wavelength of the dusty disk around the star HD 169142 obtained with the Very Large Array (VLA) at 7 mm wavelength. The positions of the protoplanet candidates are marked with plus signs (+) (Osorio, M. et al. 2014, ApJ, Para 791, L36). The insert in the upper right corner shows, at […]

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