Tuesday 5 August 2014

ALMA Finds Double Star with Weird and Wild Planet-forming Discs

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
ALMA Finds Double Star with Weird and Wild Planet-forming Discs
Paris (SPX) Aug 01, 2014 - Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. These new ALMA observations provide the clearest picture ever of protoplanetary discs in a double star. The new result also helps to explain why so many exoplanets - unlike the planets in the Solar System - ... more


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