{"id":754957,"date":"2023-05-04T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754957"},"modified":"2023-05-04T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:18:46","slug":"hubble-follows-shadow-play-around-planet-forming-disk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754957","title":{"rendered":"Hubble follows shadow play around planet-forming disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The young star TW Hydrae is playing &#8216;shadow puppets&#8217; with scientists observing it with NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope. In 2017, astronomers reported discovering a shadow sweeping across the face of a vast pancake-shaped gas-and-dust disk surrounding the red dwarf star. The shadow isn&#8217;t from a planet, but from an inner disk slightly inclined relative to the much larger outer disk &#8212; causing it to cast a shadow. One explanation is that an unseen planet&#8217;s gravity is pulling dust and gas into the planet&#8217;s inclined orbit. The young star TW Hydrae is playing &#8216;shadow puppets&#8217; with scientists observing it with NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope. Now, a second shadow &#8212; playing a game of peek-a-boo &#8212; has emerged in just a few years between observations stored in Hubble&#8217;s MAST archive. This could be from yet another disk nestled inside the system. The two disks are likely evidence of a pair of planets under construction.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2023\/05\/230504111846.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hubble follows shadow play around planet-forming disk<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young star TW Hydrae is playing &#8216;shadow puppets&#8217; with scientists observing it with NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope. In 2017, astronomers reported discovering a shadow sweeping across the face of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}