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Stellar Formation

Young Stars Massive Stars Protostars Brown Dwarfs Star Types Star Formation Rates Star Formation Regions Elemental Composition Red Supergiants Planetary Nebulae Star Clusters Hydrogen Atoms Nebulae Nebula Dynamics Star Birth Processes Proto-Globular Clusters Brown Dwarf Formation Star Formation Proto-stars Neutron Stars Dust Disks O-type Stars Magnetic Fields Planetary Mass Objects Star Mergers Star Formation Efficiency Star Lifecycle

First Detection of Heavy Water in a Planet-Forming Disk Points to Prestellar Origins

Isotopic fingerprints indicate the disk’s water formed in frigid molecular clouds long before the star.

Rogue Planet Devours Matter at Record 6 Billion Tons Per Second