Astronomers have obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disc feeding the growth of a massive baby star
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The making of TRAPPIST-1’s Earth-sized planets uncovered
The system has seven planets as big as our world that orbit close to their star
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Large telescope array measures seeds of newborn planets
Researchers using ALMA have, for the first time, achieved a precise size measurement of small dust particles around a young star
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Astronomers work out how Jupiter- and Saturn-like planets form
Researchers believe they have narrowed down the solution to one of the biggest mysteries of the universe
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Potential new hunting ground for exoplanets discovered
Eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for planets outside our Solar System
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Formation site of giant ice planet discovered around nearby star
Astronomers have found signs of an alien world growing around TW Hydrae
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Astronomers discover unusually young, heavyweight star
A young star, located almost 11,000 light years away, which could help us understand how the most massive stars in the universe are formedm, has been found
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Astronomers find evidence for comets in a distant solar system
The organic molecule methyl alcohol, or methanol, has been found in the TW Hydrae protoplanetary disc
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Astronomers discover new ‘super spiral’ class of galaxy
A strange new kind of galactic beast has been spotted in the cosmic wilderness
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New component of Milky Way discovered
Astronomers using the VISTA telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory have discovered a previously unknown component of our galaxy
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Baby ‘flickering’ stars provide link to how hungry black holes feed
A previously unknown link between the way young stellar objects grow and the way black holes feast on their surroundings has been discovered
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Why does NGC 4622 spin backwards?
Read on to find out why this galaxy is so unusual