The level of detail we’re seeing is rare in protoplanetary disk imaging,” commented Kristina Monsch from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. The level of detail is possible due to ...

A strange, layered structure in deep space has captured astronomers’ attention, looking uncannily like a cosmic sandwich ...

NASA’s Hubble captured images of IRAS 23077+6707, the largest known protoplanetary disk, revealing its structure, asymmetry, and potential for forming multiple gas giant planets.

The dual disk structure of our home galaxy may not be as unique as once thought, according to the results of a new study that probed the cross section of a spiral galaxy orbiting edge-on from the ...

The Milky Way is a rotating disk-shaped galaxy, and is pretty stock standard for its age. It’s generally believed that it took billions of years for galaxies to take on that shape, but now astronomers ...

Astronomers have found a distinct structure involving spiral arms in the reservoir of gas and dust disk surrounding the young star Elias 2-27. While spiral features have been observed on the surfaces ...

An international team of astronomers has used HiCIAO (High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Optics) [Note 1] to observe a disk around the young star SAO 206462. They succeeded in ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth.

A team of astronomers from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe has identified a thick stellar disk in the nearby Andromeda Galaxy for the first time. The discovery and properties of the ...