Spiral gas found around young star for the first time

Protoplanetary disks are ring-shaped disks of gas around a young star, where future

However, this is the first time astronomers have found a young star that is surrounded by the same gases, but in the form of a spiral.

As the stars just beginheat up, they surround themselves with layers of dust and gas. Soon, this material settles in a thin disk around the star and begins to form planets. At first, the planets are small and invisible, but as they grow, the gases around them also become larger.

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These findings are based on an infrared study of dust, which is just one component of the material surrounding the fixed star.This time, however, astronomers used ALMA to observe the young star RU Lupi and found that there is a huge cloud of gas in the form of a spiral around the inner disk.

Astronomers aren't sure exactly how this spiral formed. This structure resemblesim a mini-galaxy that extends over 1,000 astronomical units from theThe star RU Lupi itself is located 400 light-years from Earth.

These sleeves were invisible to scientists, they were foundonly after long-term observation. This means that there are other celestial bodies in space around which unusual structures can be found. Researchers are now looking for such formations around other stars.

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