Hubble telescope spies 'peek-a-boo' exoplanets amid star's tilted dust rings
Astronomers are watching a shadow sweep across the face of a vast disk of planet-birthing gas and dust surrounding the star TW Hydrae.
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Astronomers are watching a shadow sweep across the face of a vast disk of planet-birthing gas and dust surrounding the star TW Hydrae.
Shadows flickering across the dust roiling around a newborn star have revealed a rare glimpse of how the Solar System may have formed billions of years ago.
Hubble Space Telescope observations of a nearby newborn star system called TW Hydrae reveal "shadows" in its protoplanetary disk.
The shadow isn't from a planet, but from inner disk slightly inclined relative to larger outer disk
The team of researchers initially thought the shadows are being cast by two misaligned disks casting shadows.