Hubble Spots the Biggest Disk of Chaos Yet Around a Young Star
A team of astronomers has observed the largest protoplanetary disk ever seen circling a young star some 1,000 light years away. This churning expanse of gas and dust spans roughly 400 billion miles, 40 times the size of our solar system and extending to the Kuiper Belt. They’ve cataloged this disk as IRAS 23077+6707, also [...]
A team of astronomers has observed the largest protoplanetary disk ever seen circling a young star some 1,000 light years away. This churning expanse of gas and dust spans roughly 400 billion miles, 40 times the size of our solar system and extending to the Kuiper Belt. They’ve cataloged this disk as IRAS 23077+6707, also [...]
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