University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers discover pair of solar systems in the making
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 08:49
in Astronomy & Space
Two University of Hawai'i at Mānoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system. Doctoral student Rita Mann and Dr. Jonathan Williams used the Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea, Hawaii to make the observations.
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