www.ralf-schoofs.de The dust disk of our emerging solar system, the protoplanetary disk. It was a rotating circumstellar disk of gas and dust surrounding the newly...
SETI Talks archive: seti.org Protoplanetary disks originate during star formation and evolve rapidly, to form planetary systems before they disperse in a few million years....
Slideshow portraying 30 pictures of protoplanetary discs (=proplyds) discovered by astronomers of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in the Orion Nebula (also known as Messier...
A collection of 30 never-before-released images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula are the highlight of the longest single Hubble Space Telescope project...
An animated movement over the Red Rectangle showing the rung-type structures. Astronomers interpret the X-shaped structure as outflows of gas and dust from the star...
A simulation with 3 dwarf giants orbiting very close to a star with ~.8 solar masses. The simulation spans approximately 2 days. More simulations shall...