Young Stellar System Caught in Act of Forming Close Multiples
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - 13:01
in Astronomy & Space
For the first time, astronomers have seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system. Scientists had suspected such a process, caused by gravitational instability, was at work, but new observations with ALMA and the VLA revealed the process in action.