Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics. Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.
Astronomers have gained new insight into the formation of planets around twin stars that orbit one another.
This protostar continues to gather material from its prenatal cocoon of gas and dust until it has enough mass to trigger theThen, whatever material is left over from that cloud of gas and dust after the formation of these stars surrounds them as what astronomers call a"protoplanetary disk." As the name suggests, planets form from these disks. Like planets themselves, the disks can be circumstellar, surrounding just one star, or circumbinary, surrounding the whole system.
This suggested to the team that there could be a link between the rotation of young stars as well as the magnetic locking of disks to them, and, thus, the early dissipation those of disks. In addition to this, it seems like misalignments between D.F. Tau's orbit, its circumstellar disks, and the inclinations of its stars may impact the, G. Kober )This system is also located roughly 450 light-years away from us. Its stars, F.O Tau A and B, are on a more circular orbit than those of D.F Tau.
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