'Captain, There Be Planets Here!'
Category: SCIENCE
About 450 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Taurus, a dense, dark, interstellar cloud has slowly started to reveal its secrets. The addition of new high-resolution data like that for the star HL Tau is at long last allowing astronomers to see the hidden details of planet and disk formation and, from this, create the next-generation  physics-based models for how planets form.
By Dr. Sten Odenwald, ContributorAstronomer, NASA Heliophysics Education Consortium, 2014-11-22