(Nanowerk News) Astronomers have found a way to directly measure the amount of gas in protoplanetary disks without needing to make assumptions about the relative amounts of different types of gas, ...

How many stars like the Sun are circled by planets? Today, astronomers think they may be quite rare. They base that assessment on the observations of a group of stars, called T Tauri stars, that ...

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