Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Capture images of planetary system formation – Reuters

September 23, 2014, 17:55 Washington, Sep 23 (Prensa Latina) A team of astronomers detected signs of formation of a new global system for observations of the star HD169142, announces today the journal The Astrophysical Journal.

 The experts explained that planets form from disks of gas and dust that revolve around young stars, and once formed the seed of planet-composed by a small accumulation of dust-this adds material produces a groove the disc with the shape of its orbit.

This stage of transition between the original disk and difficult to study and still little known planetary system is precisely what scientists observed the star.

The research of the Superior Council of Scientific Research of Spain, Mayra Osorio, said that although in recent years more than 700 thousand exoplanets were discovered only in rare cases has been obtained direct image and has not yet achieved a forming planet

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