ATLANTA—Astronomers using the Georgia State University Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array telescopes have mapped the orbit of a pair of distant old stars that is surrounded by a vast disk of gas and dust.
Astronomers wondered if the central hole in the disk was caused by tidal pulls from the central pair of stars, but the new study shows that the pull of the stars is much too weak to explain the hole. Could recently created planets have formed in the disk and swept away the gas?
Publisher: Georgia State News Hub
Date: 2023-06-20T12:00:00 00:00
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