Astronomers spy two baby stars in a cosmic pretzel
CNNCNN — Two baby stars have been found and imaged in unprecedented detail between 600 and 700 light-years from Earth. These are the youngest stars within a star cluster found in the Barnard 59 dark nebula, also part of what’s known as the Pipe nebula. “We see two compact sources that we interpret as circumstellar disks around the two young stars,” said Felipe Alves, study author and postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. “This is a really important result,” said Paola Caselli, study co-author and managing director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. “While the good agreement of these observations with theory is already very promising, we will need to study more young binary systems in detail to better understand how multiple stars form.”
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