It's Twins! Astronomers Discover Parallel Disks and Jets Erupting from a Pair of Young Stars

21/06/2024 3 min Episodio 66
It's Twins! Astronomers Discover Parallel Disks and Jets Erupting from a Pair of Young Stars

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Most of the Universe is invisible to the human eye. The building blocks of stars are only revealed in wavelengths outside the visible spectrum. Astronomers recently used two very different and powerful telescopes to discover twin disks and twin parallel jets erupting from young stars in a multiple-star system. This discovery was unexpected and unprecedented, given the stars, disks, and jets' age, size, and chemical makeup. Their location in a known, well-studied part of the Universe adds to the thrill.