"Remarkable" Binary Stars Could Birth 3 Planetary Systems Hosting Life
Robert Lea 1 hr ago
Astronomers have observed a remarkable arrangement in a young binary star system which is giving birth to three separate systems of planets. The team also found within the three planet-forming disks of gas and dust, complex organic molecules that could, in the future, seed life on the planets that form.
The team discovered that there is not one, or two, but three planet-forming disks in the double-star system designated SVS 13 and located around 980 light-years from Earth. Each star is surrounded by one disk of gas and dust that form the building blocks of planets, and there is also a larger disk surrounding the entire binary system.
The larger outer disk has a spiral structure that is feeding matter into the individual disks, and in all of them, planetary systems could form in the future.
University of Manchester researcher Ana Karla Díaz-Rodríguez led the investigation that uncovered these extraordinary results. She told Newsweek: "This system shows that there will be planets with two suns in the sky and maybe even planets that orbit only one of the stars and which have no nights for part of their year.
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