The Twist in AB Aurigae Star PopGrip Canvas When the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft

When the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft approached its destination

This artist's impression of hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris shows the star's vast convection cells and violent ejections

The total exposure time was 14 minutes

this torrent of radiation sculpted the tall

NASA launched its Spitzer Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun

The Twist in AB Aurigae Star PopGrip Canvas When the Mars Pathfinder spacecraftThis image shows the disc around the young AB Aurigae star, where ESOs Very Large Telescope (VLT) has spotted signs of planet birth. Close to the centre of the image, in the inner region of the disc, we see the twist (in very bright yellow) that scientists believe marks the spot where a planet is forming. This twist lies at about the same distance from the AB Aurigae star as Neptune from the Sun. The image was obtained with the VLTs SPHERE instrument