PHOTO: First Proof "Tight" Double Suns Can Have Planets
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 14:42
in Astronomy & Space
A ring of gas and dust surrounding a pair of sunlike stars is the first proof that planets can form around closely orbiting stellar partners, new images reveal.
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