"If part of the planetary discs were still present, it would be in the same plane of rotation as that spinning star and the orbiting planet," Barber said. "So the disc would block our observations ...
"If part of the planetary discs were still present, it would be in the same plane of rotation as that spinning star and the orbiting planet," Barber said. "So the disc would block our observations ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges ...
Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the current ...
The planet, given the names IRAS 04125+2902 b and TIDYE-1b, orbits its star every 8.8 days at a distance about one-fifth that separating our solar system's innermost planet Mercury from the sun.