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The smooth material disk around the Vega challenges planet formation theories.

"This two-panel view of the debris disk around Vega shows Hubble's (left) and JWST's (right) views, respectively. Hubble reveals a wide disk of dust, showcasing particles approximately the size of smoke particles, while JWST shows the glow of warm (larger-sized) dust particles distributed throughout the Vega system, with only one small dip in brightness at double the Sun-Neptune distance." (BigThink, JWST compels us to ask: what’s wrong with Vega?)

"The 5th brightest star in our night sky is young, blue, and apparently devoid of massive planets. New JWST observations deepen the mystery." (BigThink, JWST compels us to ask: what’s wrong with Vega?)

"Prominent in the night sky, Vega is among the brightest stars and happens to be young, close, blue, and still possessing a dusty debris disk around it. Augmenting previous observations by Hubble and ALMA, JWST’s MIRI instrument observed its face-on disk, finding a surprise: it’s smooth and symmetric, with barely any hints of planets at all. Unlike a very similar nearby star, Fomalhaut, Vega appears to be almost entirely structure-free. Perhaps it’s simply showcasing to us just how diverse planetary systems can be." (BigThink, JWST compels us to ask: what’s wrong with Vega?)


"This interpretation of the combined ESA Herschel and NASA Spitzer data shows a potential configuration of that system based on the data as of 2013: a broad outer belt with a thin, warm inner belt. We now know that there are not large mass planets in that “gap” region, but rather a uniform disk of debris, showing scant evidence for any planetary structure at all." (BigThink, JWST compels us to ask: what’s wrong with Vega?)



"This is a James Webb Space Telescope view of a 100-billion-mile-wide disk of dust around the star Vega. The disk is remarkably smooth and there is no debatable evidence for planet formation taking place. Webb resolves the glow of warm dust in a disk halo, at 23 billion miles out. The outer disk (analogous to the solar system’s Kuiper Belt) extends from 7 billion miles to 15 billion miles. The inner disk extends from the inner edge of the outer disk down to close proximity to the star. There is a notable dip in surface brightness of the inner disk from approximately 3.7 to 7.2 billion miles. The black spot at the center is due to lack of data from saturation. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Su (University of Arizona), A. Gáspár (University of Arizona)" (ScitechDaily, Legendary Star’s Smooth Disk Mystifies Astronomers, Challenges Planet Formation Theories)


The material disk around one of the brightest stars in the sky, Vega, is smooth. That is an interesting thing. In planet formation theories. There must be some disturbance in those material disks. That gravity center can start to collect material around them. 

There must be some gravity center that collects material around it. Planet formation cannot begin. In homogenous material nebulas. That thing makes the gravity center that creates the planet. The smooth planetary disk around Vega tells us that there might not be planets. 

The planet forms some kind of denser area in that dust. So there might not planet around Vega. The first planets that form around the stars are gas giants. Then the smaller planets form between those gas giants and the star. There is no evidence of the planet in the Vega's disk. The Vega is also very smooth and that is one of the biggest surprises. Vega is a blue, hot young star whose radiation level is very high. That can cause a situation in which the planets cannot start to form around it. 

Maybe the strong radiation pressure from Vega blows the protoplanets back into the dust. Or maybe the radiation pressure prevents the whirls from forming. Without them, the protoplanet cannot even start to form. If the planet goes too close to its star, that causes vaporization. The planet turns back to dust. 

There are gas giants near red dwarfs. Those gas giants are sometimes hotter than M-spectral type, 3400 C red dwarfs. But the temperature of spectral type A star, Vega is about 10000C. That means this temperature will vaporize the planet if it goes too close to that star. The Vega is one of the most interesting stars in the sky. It's young and hot. 


https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-what-wrong-vega/


https://scitechdaily.com/legendary-stars-smooth-disk-mystifies-astronomers-challenges-planet-formation-theories/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega


By the way. 


Do you remember that in Carl Sagan's famous novel and the movie based on that book: "Contact" the alien race makes contact with humans using radio telescopes that orbit the Vega star? So that fictional novel causes ideas that maybe, in the future our most powerful telescopes might orbit the sun. 

The giant radio telescope can be like a whip. The extremely long transmitter antenna can be the wire that is connected to the weight or another satellite. Then that wire starts to rotate. That kind of telescope's size doesn't have limits. The long wire can also act as a powerful radar system that can take the radar images of the other planets. 

The thing is that the next-generation radio telescopes can be satellites that are connected with gravitational wave observatories. Those systems can have IR, visible light, and radio telescopes. That thing can open new ways to understand gravity waves. The gravity telescopes are triangles that are made of laser beams. When researchers connect information that they get from optical, radiowaves, and gravity waves they can see what kinds of reactions create those gravity waves. 


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