Comments on: disks

By: systemic - Lonely Planet Guide to the Hyades

systemic - Lonely Planet Guide to the Hyades — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:43:12 +0000

[...] For more information, this series: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, 6, and 7. of oklo posts that compare and contrast the gravitational instability and core accretion theories for giant planet formation. [...]

By: systemic - Zoom

systemic - Zoom — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:43:59 +0000

[...] In this post last February, I wrote about the protostellar disks in Orion that were imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in the mid-1990s. One of these disks has achieved nearly iconic status (at least among those who give talks on planet formation). The following image shows it viewed edge-on and in silhouette against a background of glowing nebular gas. Only a faint smudge of red hints at the central star embedded within the disk. [...]

By: systemic - G.I. No

systemic - G.I. No — Tue, 02 May 2006 02:34:58 +0000

[...] To be fair, there are also some thorny problems associated with core-accretion. In the next few posts of the giant planet formation series [1, 2, 3, 4 and 5] that we’ve been running, I’ll describe these in more detail. [...]

By: systemic - Q

systemic - Q — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:57:52 +0000

[...] This post continues the oklo.org posts: (1) the black cloud, and (2) disks. [...]