Warped debris disks around stars are blowin' in the wind
Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 03:21
in Astronomy & Space
GREENBELT, Md. --The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes. Now, a team led by John Debes at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., finds that a star's motion through interstellar gas can account for many of them.