Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a vast, complex dust structure, about 150 billion miles across, enveloping the young star HR 4796A. A bright, narrow, inner ring of dust is already known to encircle the star and may have been corralled by the gravitational pull of an unseen giant planet...
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Observations suggest chemical kinship to comets in our own solar system. An international team using ALMA has made the first complete millimeter-wavelength image of the ring of dusty debris surrounding the young star Fomalhaut...
Read More“This is something no human has seen before,” says Andrew Vanderburg of CfA. “We’re watching a solar system get destroyed.” The Death Star of the movie Star Wars may be fictional, but planetary destruction is real. Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large, rocky object disintegrating in its death spiral around a distant white dwarf star...
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