... We will also be able to see dusty disks around other stars, and, perhaps, the gaps in these disks which astronomers predict are signatures of the formation of planetary systems,' he added. ...
... stars are bound to be in specific conditions, such as: a) high density of the dust ... TWO-STAR SOLAR SYSTEM April 20, 1998 Writer: Steve Orlando, sfo@ufl.edu Source ... star is about 220 light years from Earth and about 47 billion miles from its ...
... of astronomers used telescopes in Hawaii and Chile to image the region near the star where it appears planets may be forming, or may recently have formed, a 'missing link' of planetary formation between dust disks and systems with planets already formed ...
... star looks similar in many ways to our solar system's Kuiper belt, a ring of comets and dusty debris left over from the ... stars orbited by planets has been guided by a powerful UA theory group studying ideas of extra-solar planet formation ...
... binary-star systems than previously thought, according to astronomers who used the ... was not a single young star but a pair of young stars, separated only slightly more ...
... around as the star spins, sapping the star of rotational energy," says Gotthelf ... magnetic field would also prevent the formation of the electrons needed to produce ... pulsars and X-ray pulsars is that stars start out with a natural variability in ...
... formation of organic compounds important to the origins of life, such as from ... A neutron star is a burned-out star roughly equal in mass to the Sun that has ... stars die and create the heavier elements that later become planets and other stars ...
... SPACECRAFT INTERNATIONAL ID (CATALOG NUMBER) LAUNCH DATE,UT GLOBAL STAR U-1 1998-008A 25162 14 FEBRUARY 1998 GLOBAL STAR U-2 1998-008B 25163 14 FEBRUARY 1998 GLOBAL STAR L-1 1998-008C 25164 14 FEBRUARY 1998 GLOBAL STAR L-2 1998-008D 25165 14 FEBRUARY 1998 ...