The gravitational collapse of rotating, denser-than-average "cores" within a molecular cloud results in the creation of a central protostar surrounded by a flattened spinning disk of gaseous material, ...

Using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), an international team of astronomers has observed a young Herbig Ae-type star known as T Coronae Australis. As a result, they found that the star ...

The new research has shown that these cosmic orphans could be forged when flattened clouds of gas and dust called "circumstellar disks" around infant stars violently interact. This violent ...

Simulations show that these objects could form during violent collisions between circumstellar disks around young stars. These collisions, occurring at impressive speeds, create bridges of matter that ...

This image, acquired by the Subaru Telescope and its HiCIAO instrument, is the first to show spiral arms in a circumstellar disk. The disk itself is some 14 billion miles across, or about twice ...

Why PMOs are unique PMOs form along stars, inheriting material from the outer edges of circumstellar disks. PMOs move in synchrony with the stars in their host cluster, unlike ejected planets.