"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

Astronomers have obtained detailed images of two protoplanets forming around the PDS 70 star system, located 370 light-years away in the Centaurus constellation. These planets are still surrounded by ...

The team also found that most of the observed disks showed neither gaps nor rings. Pinilla added that ... particular kind of extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," called a super-Earth.

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Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

Instead, exoplanets tend to cluster into two size ... where planets within the same system are strikingly similar in size. The ring model naturally produces this uniformity by controlling how ...

The rings would be hard to spot in the sun’s ... From Mount Kent, Horner and other researchers search for and study exoplanets orbiting distant stars, discovering more than 100 to date.

The ring could enclose both masses ... tandem with an object showing a strong infrared excess. Shells around a sun-exoplanet pair or an exoplanet-exoplanet pair could also be possible.

Instead, exoplanets tend to cluster into two size ... where planets within the same system are strikingly similar in size. The ring model naturally produces this uniformity by controlling how ...