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Showing posts with label protoplanetary disk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protoplanetary disk. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Planets are born within the protoplanetary disk


WASHINGTON, October 10. The observed star with massive curved arms can be an incubator for the planets, the researchers found.

In 2011, astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have discovered a massive star with curved arms 22 billion miles in diameter, which is 2 times the orbit of Pluto. Star SAO 206462 was designated. Strange spiral structure, which is observed in this star, usually characterized by the galaxies, not stars, writes InFuture.