Young Stars Hk Tauri A And B
by Robert Hurt (NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC)
Title
Young Stars Hk Tauri A And B
Artist
Robert Hurt (NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC)
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
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.
Uploaded
October 21st, 2016
Embed
Share
Comments
There are no comments for Young Stars Hk Tauri A And B. Click here to post the first comment.