An international team of astronomers has used HiCIAO (High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Optics) [Note 1] to observe a disk around the young star SAO 206462. They succeeded in ...

Astronomers have found a distinct structure involving spiral arms in the reservoir of gas and dust disk surrounding the young star Elias 2-27. While spiral features have been observed on the surfaces ...

A team of astronomers has captured the most detailed images yet of what NASA and multiple research teams describe as the ...

Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different features, including stellar population and movement. Three major theoretical ...

Record-breaking size: Hubble imaged a planet-forming disk about 40 times wider than our solar system, the largest of its kind ever observed. Chaotic asymmetry: The disk shows towering filaments on one ...