{"id":214552,"date":"2025-05-23T05:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/detailed-observations-of-15-protoplanetary-disks-reveal-new-dynamics-in-planet-formation"},"modified":"2025-05-23T05:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:14:12","slug":"detailed-observations-of-15-protoplanetary-disks-reveal-new-dynamics-in-planet-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/detailed-observations-of-15-protoplanetary-disks-reveal-new-dynamics-in-planet-formation","title":{"rendered":"Detailed observations of 15 protoplanetary disks reveal new dynamics in planet formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/detailed-observations-of-15-protoplanetary-disks-reveal-new-dynamics-in-planet-formation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of international astronomers led by Richard Teague, the Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), has gathered the most sensitive and detailed observations of 15 protoplanetary disks to date, giving the astronomy community a new look at the mechanisms of early planetary formation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new approaches we\u2019ve developed to gather this data and images are like switching from reading glasses to high-powered binoculars\u2014they reveal a whole new level of detail in these planet-forming systems,\u201d says Teague.<\/p>\n<p>Their open-access <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/adc42c\" target=\"_blank\">findings were published<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/collections\/Focus-on-exoALMA\" target=\"_blank\">special collection of 17 papers<\/a> in <i>The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/i>, with several more coming out this summer. The report sheds light on a breadth of questions, including ways to calculate the mass of a disk by measuring its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gravitational+influence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gravitational influence<\/a> and extracting rotational velocity profiles to a precision of meters per second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of international astronomers led by Richard Teague, the Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), has gathered the most sensitive and detailed observations of 15 protoplanetary disks to date, giving the astronomy community a new look at the mechanisms of early planetary formation. \u201cThe new approaches [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}