An international group of astronomers from the United States and Germany has found a young star 1,000 light-years from Earth with the largest protoplanetary disk known to scientists today. The research was published in the scientific journal broadcasting Astrophysics Journal Letters (AJL).
Protoplanetary disks of stars consist of dust and gas, from which planets and other celestial bodies gradually form under the influence of the star’s gravity.
As observations show, the open disk called IRAS 23077 is 3.3 thousand times wider than the distance between the Earth and the Sun. The material it contains is enough to create giant worlds in very distant orbits.
According to scientists, IRAS 23077 looks like a butterfly. Its scale is twice the previous record among protoplanetary stellar disks.
Christina Monsch, lead author of the study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, stated that the size of IRAS 23077 will allow researchers to observe planet formation processes.
Earlier astronomers opened It is a huge planet that resembles cotton candy in terms of its density.
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Source: Gazeta
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