Radio telescope images reveal planet-forming disk orbiting twin suns
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 14:35
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star system V4046 Sagittarii. The SMA images provide an unusually vivid snapshot of the process of formation of giant planets, comets, and Pluto-like bodies.