How newborn stars prepare for the birth of planets

Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020

An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. These images reveal new details about the birthplaces of planets and the earliest stages of star formation. Most of the stars in the universe are accompanied by planets. These planets a