08:36 PM
Monday 18 July 2022
Cairo-Masrawy:
Astronomers have discovered two suns revolving around each other, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust similar to the rings of Saturn, in what they called a “rare binary.”
Scientists explained that these primary planetary disks depend in their formation from families of planets in such our solar system, noting that it is a rare phenomenon because the disks of these systems are located at an angle with the orbits of their central stars, according to the scientific journal “Phys”.
“Discovering such objects is important to our understanding of the deepest planets, planets are born from, so the presence of disks around binary stars shows that it is likely that we will find More planets orbiting binaries.
“It will also help us understand whether life can exist on a planet orbiting a binary star at an angle, because of how that direction affects temperature and other conditions.”
The discovery of the new objects, called Bernard-1 and Bernard-2, is described in a paper published July 4 in the journal Astrophysical Journal.
“Barnard-1 and Bernard-2 are too far away, we can’t see their central stars individually,” said lead author Hu Wei Zhou from Tsinghua University in Beijing. We only see a single point of light and measure the total brightness of the diode.”
Michael Boone, a co-discoverer and a PhD student from the University of Toronto, Canada, said: “You will see two suns in the sky orbiting each other, in addition to a disk around the stars depicting the rings of Saturn, but much larger with the stars in the middle.”