Everything Science Forum

Everything Space => Space Science and Astronomy => Topic started by: Orstio on February 08, 2006, 08:32:45 PM


Title: Disks encircling hypergiant stars may spawn planets in inhospitable environment
Post by: Orstio on February 08, 2006, 08:32:45 PM
Click here to read the article ... (http://www.everything-science.com/content/view/174/1/)
Quote
The discovery of dusty disks--the building blocks of planets--around two of the most massive stars known suggests that planets might form and survive in surprisingly hostile environments.
(http://www.everything-science.com/images/stories/rit20806_1.jpg)
This illustration compares the size of a gargantuan star and its surrounding dusty disk (top) to that of our solar system.
The discovery was made through  (http://www.everything-science.com/javascript:void(0) onmouseover=return overlib('Us government agency which carries out aviation and space research projects.  Visit NASA on the web:  http://www.nasa.gov', CAPTION, 'NASA',BELOW,RIGHT, WIDTH, 300, FGCOLOR, '#CCCCFF', BGCOLOR, '#333399', TEXTCOLOR, '. . .[/quote)

Title: Re: Disks encircling hypergiant stars may spawn planets in inhospitable environment
Post by: Astronuc on February 09, 2006, 08:56:48 AM
That's amazing!  :D

I wonder if that star is really that big, and what the uncertainty is on that size.

One of a few papers on hypergiant stars - http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/meeting/talks/Zickgraf.pdf


Powered by SMF 2.0 Beta 3.1 Public | SMF © 2006–2008, Simple Machines LLC