Why Planets Fall Out of Rhythm
Young planetary systems resemble an orchestra that has just started rehearsing: all the musicians strive to play in the same rhythm.
Dust Grains Like Shuttlecocks: How Patterns Emerge in Protoplanetary Disks
Around young stars, disks of gas and dust swirl — the building blocks for future planets. Inside these disks, dust grains don't just fly randomly: they align along invisible lines of gas flow. Recently, astronomers noticed that dust grains in such disks behave like badminton shuttlecocks — always turning their long side into the wind.