News and articles on the topic Protoplanetary disks

"Outstanding discovery": exoplanet found for the first time in a multi-ring disk around a star

News Science and space 08-28-2025 comment
A team of astronomers, using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Chilean Atacama Desert, has discovered for the first time young exoplanet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk around the parent star. 

Mysterious giant object distorted the solar system — it may lose one planet

News Science and space 01-22-2025 comment
Scientists say that if creating the Solar System “by the book,” it would be flatter and more round. It seems something extraordinarily large stirred it up.

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