Mar 23

Scientists found that protoplanetary disks around wide binaries have strange orientations

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Astronomers have been searching the skies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimter Array (ALMA) to study orbital geometries and protoplanetary disks that surround binary stars. The team found that protoplanetary disks orbiting most compact binary star systems have very nearly the same orbital plane. However, when a protoplanetary disk orbits a wide binary pair, the orbital plane tends to be severely … Continue reading

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