Not exact matches
A new study reveals that
young planetary systems elsewhere are surprisingly violent,
with huge collisions (inset) that produce bright but short - lived bands of dust.
A new model suggests that most
young planetary systems start
with several close - in, rocky planets, which later destroy each other in a cascade of collisions.
Our Solar
system, and other
planetary systems, began life
with disks of gas and dust grains around a
young star.
Lloyd, J.P., Lunine, J.I., Mamajek, E., Spiegel, D.S., Covey, K.R., Shkolnik, E.L., Walkowicz, L., Chavez, M., Bertone, E., & Olmedo Aguilar, J.M., Targeting
Young Stars
with Kepler: Planet Formation, Migration Mechanisms and the Early History of
Planetary Systems, eprint arXiv: 1309 - 1520, 2013
We present and exploit new near - infrared images and integral - field spectra of the four gas giants surrounding HR8799 obtained
with SPHERE, the new planet f... ▽ More The
planetary system discovered around the
young A-type HR8799 provides a unique laboratory to: a) test planet formation theories, b) probe the diversity of
system architectures at these separations, and c) perform comparative (exo) planetology.
Hubble investigations of January 1997 have revealed interesting interactions of the
young hot Trapezium cluster stars
with the protoplanetary disks: Their violent radiation tends to destruct the discs, so that the lower - mass stars forming here may loose the material needed to form
planetary systems.