Discovered that twin stars are being incubated in a physical disk

The observed pair of stars is being formed by the accretion of energy from surrounding massive disks of matter.

CNN on October 5 said two stars were formed about 600-700 light-years from Earth. The two stars are surrounded by circles called matter disks , composed of gas and dust, that help to nurture the formation and growth of two stars.

"The size of each physical disk is equivalent to the size of the asteroid belt in our Solar System, the distance between them is 28 times the distance from the Sun to the Earth , " says Felipe Alves, expert from Max Planck Institute of Space Physics, said.

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The resulting image of twins is forming.(Photo: CNN).

The scientists say the two physical disks surrounded by a larger disk help to create their spiral-like biscuits. This larger disk is 80 times the mass of Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System.

The large disk surrounding the outermost is the first source of energy for the two stars. After absorbing energy from this large disk, each star will absorb energy from its own physical disk surrounding it.

"In the end, we were also able to simulate complex bipolar systems, with the energy fiber system connecting them to the physical disks where they were born. This result helps limit the models of formation." of stars, " said Paola Caselli, CEO of Max Planck Institute.

To observe the stars, the international team of astronomers used the Atacama radio telescope system in Chile.

The two observed stars are the youngest stars found at Barnard's Dark Nebula 59 . This is called the Dark Nebula because they have so thick a cloud of dust that covers the light emitting each star. Earlier, astronomers thought that no star existed in this region.