Artist’s_impression_of_the_discs_around_the_young_stars_HK_Tauri_A_and_B.jpg
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Summary
Description Artist’s impression of the discs around the young stars HK Tauri A and B.jpg |
English:
This artist’s impression shows a striking pair of wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around both the young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. ALMA observations of this system have provided the clearest picture ever of protoplanetary discs in a double star. The new result demonstrates one possible way to explain why so many exoplanets — unlike the planets in the Solar System — came to have strange, eccentric or inclined orbits.
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Source | http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1423a/ |
Author | R. Hurt (NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC) |
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