#planetaryformation — Public Fediverse posts

A Rare Interstellar Object Zooming Through Our Solar System Could Be Fundamental To Planets Of The Future
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=a-rare-interstellar-object-zooming-through-our-solar-system-could-be-fundamental-to-planets-of-the-future
"Unveiling Planetary Secrets: Journey with the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS"
#space #astronomy #interstellarobject #planetaryformation

Turns out your childhood nightmare of socks sticking to everything is actually how planets are born. 🌌⚡️ Next time you zap yourself on a doorknob, remember you're just partaking in some intergalactic creationism. 😏✨
https://nautil.us/how-pebbles-form-planets-1201205/ #socksinspace #planetaryformation #intergalacticcreationism #childhoodnightmares #scientificdiscovery #HackerNews #ngated

This is a neat result! ALMA observations show the "gravitational wiggle" in the gas in the protoplanetary disks around AB Aurigae! The presence of those wiggles would be a marker of the "top-down” pathway in planetary formation (bigger features first), instead of the bottom-up (accumulation of granules) one.

https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/alma-detects-hallmark-wiggle-of-gravitational-instability-in-planet-forming-disk/

#ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterArray #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimeterArray #PlanetaryFormation #TopDown

https://www.earth.com/news/cosmic-winds-from-planet-forming-discs-seen-for-the-first-time/

For the first time, researchers, including Naman Bajaj from the University of Arizona and Dr. Uma Gorti from the SETI Institute, have captured images of winds emanating from an aging yet still young planet-forming disk, offering vital clues on the dispersal of gas crucial for the formation of planets.

#exoplanets #jwst #planetaryformation #scicomm