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 ...

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 ...

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 ...