Keck telescopes gaze into young star's 'life zone'
Friday, December 25, 2009 - 00:28
in Astronomy & Space
The inner regions of young planet-forming disks offer information about how worlds like Earth form, but not a single telescope in the world can see them. Yet, for the first time, astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have measured the properties of a young solar system at distances closer to the star than Venus is from our sun.