Friday, August 6

Disk Around Exoplanet

For The First Time, Astronomers Witness a Moon-Forming Disk Around an Exoplanet

ANDY TOMASWICK, UNIVERSE TODAY 26 JULY 2021


Planetary formation is a complicated, multilayered process. Even with the influx of data on exoplanets, there are still only two known planets that are not yet fully formed.

Known as PDS 70b and PDS 70c, the two planets, which were originally found by the Very Large Telescope, are some of the best objects we have to flesh out our planetary formation models. 

And now, one of them has been confirmed to have a moon-forming disk around it.  READ MORE

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