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An artist’s impression of a double sunset on a ‘Tatooine’ exoplanet forming in a circumbinary disk that is misaligned with the orbits of its binary stars. Image credit: NRAO / AUI / NSF / S. Dagnello.

ALMA Observes Protoplanetary Disks around Binary Stars

Mar 19, 2020 by News Staff

Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers has found striking orbital geometries in circumbinary protoplanetary...