Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS 23077+6707. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest visible-light images ever recorded of a colossal planet-forming disk surrounding a young star nearly 1,000 light-years away. The discovery, ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” the enormous structure appears turbulent and oddly lopsided, with towering ...