This long-studied star is actually a stellar duo: ‘We were absolutely stunned’

a galactic nebula on the left is enlarged on the right to show two lightening bolts striking through gaseous clouds.

Shrouded in a dense cloud of gas and dust, a young star in the constellation Ophiuchus that astronomers have studied for decades turns out to be a duo. It also appears that both members of the pair are surrounded by a disk of material within which planets have just begun to merge. The twin stars, … Read more