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Double Star System Flips Planet-Forming Disk into Pole Position

Artist’s impression of a view of the double star system and surrounding disc.
Credit: Copyright University of Warwick/Mark Garlick

New research led by an astronomer at the University of Warwick has found the first confirmed example of a double star system that has flipped its surrounding disc to a position that leaps over the orbital plane of those stars. The international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) to obtain high-resolution images of the Asteroid belt-sized disc.

The overall system presents the unusual sight of a thick hoop of gas and dust circling at right angles to the binary star orbit...

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