Astronomers watch planet-forming disks evaporate
Astronomers at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory in Tuscon have observed protoplanetary disks orbiting stars like the sun ripped apart by intense ultraviolet light and solar wind from powerful O-type stars in the vicinity. Using NASA's Spitzer infrared space telescope to strip away the...
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