Steward Observatory Co-Authors Help Unveil the Mysteries of Planetary Formation

March 28, 2024
This artist's illustration depicts how the gas leaving the nascent planet-forming disk might look. Such gas dispersal can also happen around supermassive black holes, however, the physics may not be the same as those discussed here.

Jane Morrison and Andras Gaspar are co-authors of a new study, published in the Astronomical Journal, that reveals images from a nascent planetary system in the process of actively dispersing its gas into surrounding space. Read more here.