[ad_1] By Rebecca Wilson BBC News NI 4 hours ago Image source, IT/L. Road Screenshot, Artist’s impression of the magnetic white dwarf WD 0816-310 with a metallic scar Armagh astronomers have discovered a sign that a star was feeding on nearby planets and asteroids. A metal scar found on the surface of the dead star … Read more
[ad_1] (MENAFN- The Conversation) A new planet begins its life in a rotating circle of gas and dust, a cradle known as a protostellar disk. My colleagues and I have used computer simulations to show that the newborn gaseous planets in these disks probably have surprisingly flattened shapes. This finding, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics … Read more
[ad_1] An extreme flare from a young star that resembles the sun suggests that the budding planets must exist in a pretty wild environment. A team of scientists from the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) used the Submillimeter Array (SMA), a set of telescopes on Maunakea in Hawaii, to observe the young star HD 283572. The … Read more