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Using ALMA, the researchers imaged all known protoplanetary disks around young stars in Lupus, a star-forming region located about 400 light years from Earth in the southern constellation Lupus. The ...

Stars and their planets form when large molecular clouds collapse in on themselves. Gravity pulls the dust and gas into a violent spiral, which flattens out into a structure known as a protoplanetary ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a planet-birthing disk of gas and dust around a young star, uncovering some strange and unexpected chemistry.