Archive for March 3rd, 2011

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

Planet Formation in Action -- Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, an international team of astronomers has been able to study the short-lived disc of material around a young star that is in the early stages of making a planetary system. For the first time, a smaller companion could be detected that may be the cause of the large gap found in the [...]