Centre for Star and Planet Formation

Freon-40 found in surroundings of a young star in ALMA survey led by StarPlan astronomers, as well as toward Comet 67P with the Rosetta mission. Discovery provides important information about the link between distant protostars and our own Solar System.

ALMA and Rosetta Detect Freon-40 in Space - Dashing Hopes that Molecule May be Marker of Life Observations made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESA’s Rosetta mission, have revealed the presence of the organohalogen Freon-40 in gas around both an infant star and a comet. Organohalogens are formed by organic processes on Earth, but this is the first ever detect...

Exciting result about the origin of our Solar System: researchers at StarPlan show that the building blocks for terrestrial planets were formed less than 1 Myr after the Sun.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/8/e1700407

Early formation of planetary building blocks inferred from Pb isotopic ages of chondrules The most abundant components of primitive meteorites (chondrites) are millimeter-sized glassy spherical chondrules formed by transient melting events in the solar protoplanetary disk. Using Pb-Pb dates of 22 individual chondrules, we show that primary production of chondrules in the early solar syst...

ALMA shows how extended whirlwind launched from protoplanetary disk. New results from ALMA published today in Nature by StarPlan astronomers.

Read more in the press release at http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news16/newly-formed-stars-shoot-out-powerful-whirlwinds/ or the full article at http://rdcu.be/nPPO

Binary protostar juggling three protoplanetary disks: new result from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array by StarPlan astronomers.

http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news16/chaos-in-cosmos-stars-with-three-planet-forming-discs-of-gas/

The Copenhagen Culture Night 2012 at the Geological Museum and Botanical Garden a big success. StarPlan played a big part - see some of the pictures here...

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.458113367573200.126453.130616260322914&type=1

Over 18.000 gæster lagde vejen forbi Geologisk Museum og Botanisk Have på Kulturnatten. Tak, fordi I var med til at gøre det til en fantastisk oplevelse. Arrangementet i haven blev endog kåret som det andet bedst besøgte af alle Kulturnats-aktiviteterne i 2012 :) Vi er meget beærede og glæder os allerede til næste år.

On Wednesday October 3rd StarPlan astronomers Lars Buchhave and Jes Jørgensen (among others) tell about their research in DR2's program "Danskernes Akademi" (13:10-15:10).
http://www.dr.dk/DR2/Danskernes+akademi/

Danskernes akademi Danskernes Akademi er viden til dig, når du vil - og hvor du vil. Du kan blive klogere, fordybe dig og blive inspireret til at vide mere. Sendefladen er et miks af forelæsninger, debatter og dokumentarprogrammer.

Sweet Results from ALMA - Building blocks of life found around young star by StarPlan astronomers

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1234

More Earth-like Planets in the Galaxy | STARPLAN It had previously been thought that planets were more likely to form around stars with a high content of heavier elements. But a new study led by researchers at the Centre for Star and Planet Formation shows that small planets can form around very different types of stars including those that are re...

ESO - eso1204 - Planet Population is Plentiful eso1204 - Planet Population is Plentiful . An international team, including three astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky Way. After a six-year search that surveyed millions of stars...

A wealth of habitable planets in the Milky Way Astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute have discovered that most of the Milky Way’s 100 billion stars have planets that are very similar to the Earth-like planets in our own solar system – Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepscicon-briefing.html

NASA - NASA's Kepler Mission Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface.

http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-46373361:danskere-finder-planet-der-ligner-jorden.html

Danskere finder planet der ligner Jorden Et team af forskere på fra Centre for Star and Planet Formation og Aarhus Universitet har været med til at opdage en ny jordlignende planet.