A simulation of the later stages of the process. A hot Jupiter planet is pushed to its star too close and starts to evaporate, shedding its outer layers into the surrounding disk. The extra material ...

Planet-disk interaction numerical simulation. The planet excites spiral waves in the disk and later opens gaps. The leftmost panel is the gas distribution in the simulation. The middle two panels show ...

This is a still from a simulation of a forming planetary disk, made by University of Warwick and Stephen Hawking Research Fellow Rebecca Nealon. The images show the rotating inner disk along the top ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A simulation of gas swirling around a black hole. The colors show the density of the gas, with brighter colors representing higher ...

Still from a simulation of a forming planetary disk. The images show the rotating inner disk along the top half, and the shadow it casts on the outer disk in the lower half. CREDIT Rebecca Nealon / ...

A young, massive planet is orbiting in an unusual place in its star system, and it’s leading researchers to revive a long-debated view of how giant planets can form. “My first reaction was, there’s no ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star, a sprawling structure where gas and dust are actively assembling new worlds. The discovery pushes the ...

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 ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ever seen around a young star; and it looks unexpectedly wild. Using NASA’s ...