Disks

Some planet-forming stars never ‘grow up’ and lose their ‘Peter Pan’ disks

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a bright white orb surrounded by dusty brown clouds

Planet formation around low-mass stars may be suffering from Peter Pan syndrome. While previous observations and models have suggested that a disk of planetary building blocks should be ‘fully grown’ – having burned through its world-making material – in about 10 million years, a new kid on the block is proving them wrong, weighing in … Read more

Webb Observes Protoplanetary Disks that Contradict Models of Planet Formation

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was specifically intended to address some of the greatest unresolved questions in cosmology. These include all of the major questions scientists have been pondering since the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) took its deepest views of the Universe: the Hubble Tension, how the first stars and galaxies came together, how … Read more