Planet-forming Disk Discovered Orbiting Twin Suns (via Science Daily)
Astronomers have announced that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian’s Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star system V4046 Sagittarii. The SMA images provide an unusually vivid snapshot of the process of formation of giant planets, comets, and Pluto-like bodies. The results also confirm that such objects may just as easily form around double stars as around single stars like our Sun.
