Free Astronomy Magazine July-August 2018

N ew images from the SPHERE instru- ment on ESO’s Very Large Telescope are revealing the dusty discs surrounding nearby young stars in greater detail than previ- ously achieved. They show a bizarre variety of shapes, sizes and structures, in- cluding the likely effects of planets still in the process of forming. [ESO/H. Aven- haus et al./E. Sissa et al./DARTT-S and SHINE col- laborations]