Sentences with phrase «young planetary system»

Led by Steven Silverberg of University of Oklahoma, the team described a newly identified red dwarf star with a warm circumstellar disk, of the kind associated with young planetary systems.

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.

In the future, the vortex will look at many more young planetary systems, in particular planets near the «ice lines,» which are the region around a star where temperatures have become cold enough for volatile molecules, such as water, methane, and carbon dioxide, to condense into solid icy grains.

This result has an impact on our understanding of how organic matter accumulates in very young planetary systems.»

One way to address the issue would be to observe the process occurring in other, younger planetary systems, but that would require making observations that planetary scientists haven't yet been able to manage.

This supports the idea that a young planetary system can inherit the chemical composition of its parent star - forming cloud and opens up the possibility that organohalogens could arrive on planets in young systems during planet formation or via comet impacts.

«We are now witnessing what is happening in a young planetary system... phenomena that were expected to have taken place in the solar system itself,» Kiefer says.

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, has identified a young planetary system which may aid in understanding how our own solar system formed and developed billions of years ago.

It offers astronomers a front - row seat to the evolution of a young planetary system and it remains one of the closest, youngest and best - studied examples today.

This month's extraterrestrial wonders include a dune - swept Martian beach, a polar view of Jupiter, and a young planetary system that seems to glare like a demonic eye.

This is the first and best example of what a young planetary system looks like.