* Astronomy

ALMA Finds Double Star with Weird and Wild Planet-forming Discs

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. These new ALMA observations provide the clearest picture ever of protoplanetary discs in a double star. The new result also helps to explain why so many exoplanets - unlike the planets in the Solar System - came to have strange, eccentric or inclined orbits. The results will appear in the journal Nature on 31 July 2014.
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