Sentences with phrase «young debris disks»

Rieke's research team recently discovered that many extreme young debris disks are variable on yearly, or even monthly, timescales.

Not exact matches

A young, hungry black hole usually takes an occasional break from feeding — its glowing debris disk can get so intense it pushes incoming material further away.

Whether around a young star or a supermassive black hole, the many mutually interacting objects in a self - gravitating debris disk are complicated to describe mathematically.

When he and his advisor simulated the early impact, they did not see a young Earth surrounded by a disk of debris.

Around younger stars, however, many of these newly formed objects have yet to settle into stately orbits and routinely collide, producing enough rubble to spawn a «second - generation» disk of debris.

If certain debris disks are able to hold onto appreciable amounts of gas, it might push back astronomers» expected deadline for giant planet formation around young stars, the astronomers speculate.

Rieke's plans for JWST investigations include imaging nearby debris disks deeply enough to detect young ice giant planets to understand how they sculpt debris disks, and obtaining multiple epoch infrared spectra of variable disks.

Young stars that are from a few million to one billion years old and appear to have a disk of dust and debris orbiting them may be the best place to look for giant exoplanets.

The paper suggests that when astronomers are looking for these giant exoplanets, they should concentrate on looking at young star systems that have debris disks around them.

The finding ends a decade of scientific speculation that an odd warp in the young star's debris disk may actually be another inclined disk.

The finding ends a decade of speculation that an odd warp in the young star's debris disk may actually be another inclined disk.

Given that Tau Ceti does not appear to be a young star, the ring of dusty debris is believed to be produced by collisions between larger comets and asteroids that break them down into smaller and smaller pieces, and Tau Ceti's disk is similar in size and shape to the disk of comets and asteroids that orbits the Sun, Sol.

Disk Detective's goal was to locate protoplanetary disks — very early solar systems — around young stars, and debris disks around more mature ones.

Although very young stars tend to have circumstellar dust or «debris» disks, such dust grains generally disappear quickly during the formation of the star.