Tag: PDS 70

Radio astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes in Chile have found a disk of gas and dust (left) around exoplanet PDS 70 c, a still-forming gas giant that was obscured from view in the 2018 infrared image (right) that first revealed its sister planet, PDS 70 b. (Image courtesy of A. Isella, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO))

Astronomers Discover Moon-Forming Disk Around Distant Planet

MessageToEagle.com | July 15, 2019

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using Earth’s most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have observed a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust like the one that

This artist's illustration shows two gas giant exoplanets orbiting the young star PDS 70. These planets are still growing by accreting material from a surrounding disk. In the process, they have gravitationally carved out a large gap in the disk. The gap extends from distances equivalent to the orbits of Uranus and Neptune in our solar system Image credit: J. Olmsted (STScI)

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Two Exoplanets Directly Observed Growing Around A Young Star

MessageToEagle.com | June 10, 2019

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have directly imaged two exoplanets that are gravitationally carving out a wide gap within a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star.

This spectacular image from the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope is the first clear image of a planet caught in the very act of formation around the dwarf star PDS 70. The planet stands clearly out, visible as a bright point to the right of the centre of the image, which is blacked out by the coronagraph mask used to block the blinding light of the central star. Credit: ESO/A. Müller et al.

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ESO’s Very Large Telescope Captured Image Of Newborn Planet PDS 70b

MessageToEagle.com | July 5, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers led by a group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany have captured a spectacular snapshot of planetary formation around the young dwarf