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    Observations of planet forming disks in multiple stellar systems

    The demographic of circumstellar disks, the birthplaces of planets, is diverse and rich in disks featuring rings, gaps, spirals, filaments, and arcs. Many studies revealing these disk structures have focused o...

    Alice Zurlo, Raffaele Gratton, Sebastián Pérez in The European Physical Journal Plus (2023)

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    Deuterium-enriched water ties planet-forming disks to comets and protostars

    Water is a fundamental molecule in the star and planet formation process, essential for catalysing the growth of solid material and the formation of planetesimals within disks1,2. However, the water snowline and ...

    John J. Tobin, Merel L. R. van ’t Hoff, Margot Leemker, Ewine F. van Dishoeck in Nature (2023)

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    The ice composition in the disk around V883 Ori revealed by its stellar outburst

    Complex organic molecules (COMs), which are the seeds of prebiotic material and precursors of amino acids and sugars, form in the icy mantles of circumstellar dust grains1 but cannot be detected remotely unless t...

    Jeong-Eun Lee, Seokho Lee, Giseon Baek, Yuri Aikawa, Lucas Cieza in Nature Astronomy (2019)