Latest Space Breaking News: Observations explore icy protoplanetary disk of the star PDS 453 Link: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-explore-icy-protoplanetary-disk-star.html Summary: Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a young star known as PDS 453. Results of the new study, published on the preprint server arXiv, yield essential information about the structure and composition of this disk.