Young binary star system may form planets with weird and wild orbits
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 01, 2014 - Unlike our solitary Sun, most stars form in binary pairs - two stars that orbit a common center of mass. Though remarkably plentiful, binaries pose a number of questions, including how and where planets form in such complex environments. While surveying a series of binary stars with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers uncovered a striking pair of wildly mi ... more
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