Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In the Orion Nebula, the brightest and most massive stars emit intense ultraviolet ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a young star known as PDS 453. Results of the new study, published on the ...

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New Delhi: The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the images of a pair of protoplanetary disks, Tau 042021 at a distance of about 450 lightyears from the Earth in the constellation of Taurus and ...