Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

Protoplanetary nebula IRAS 13208-6020 Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. Protoplanetary nebulae are objects with extremely short life span (less than 10,000 years). This is one of the final stages ...

Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In the Orion Nebula, the brightest and most massive stars emit intense ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

It's a type of body called a proplyd, which is a portmanteau of "ionized protoplanetary disk." Proplyds were first spotted in the Orion Nebula, which is 1,344 light-years away, in the mid-1990s by ...

Hubble images searchlight beams from a preplanetary nebula Date: April 27, 2012 Source: NASA Summary: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been at the cutting edge of research into what happens ...

The aptly named Egg Nebula, lying 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, is a protoplanetary nebula. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

Planetesimals are buffeted by wind in their nebula, throwing debris into space: Study. ... It’s called a protoplanetary disk once the star has formed and begun fusion.

This work in progress is situated in the Orion Nebula, a luminous cloud of interstellar gas and dust about 1,500 light-years away. Its star is about 1 million years old—a baby, in astronomy terms.