27 June 2016
Protoplanetary disc shares similarities with our own Solar System say researchers
.... by performing full spectral scans of young stellar objects embedded in protoplanetary discs. The young stellar object in question is HD 142527, a Herbig Ae/Be star located 145 parsecs away. Herbig stars are typically young stars (less than 10Myr...
15 February 2016
Astronomers provide new insights into planet formation around binary stars
... AAAS meeting in Washington, D.C a team from Rice University in Houston, Texas, showed analysis of a planet-forming disk around HD 142527, a binary star about 450 light-years from Earth in a cluster of young stars known as the Scorpius- Centaurus...
