WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Our sun and other stars form when a dense clump of interstellar gas and dust collapses under its own gravitational pull. Once a star is born at the center of such a cloud, ...

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris. Beta ...

Be stars, a sub-class of B-type stars, are distinguished by their rapid rotation and the presence of prominent emission lines in their spectra, associated with circumstellar gaseous disks. These disks ...

Coronographic image of polarized light around the star AB Aurigae. Image: An object appears to be forming from gas and dust around the star AB Aurigae. Credit and Larger Version Scientists are one ...

Teams of astronomers used the combined power of NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to revisit the legendary Vega disk. In the 1997 movie "Contact," adapted from Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, the ...

An international team of astronomers led by Durham University and including astronomers at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre has reported the first detection of a rotating disc structure around a ...

A new image of the disk of gas and dust around a Sun-like star is the first to show spiral-arm-like structures. These features may provide clues to the presence of embedded but as-yet-unseen planets. ...

The James Webb Space Telescope resolves the glow of warm dust in a disk halo around Vega, at 23 billion miles out. There is no evidence of giant planets around Vega, one of the brightest, most famous ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...