Misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the system HK Tauri

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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the system HK Tauri. These new ALMA observations provide the clearest picture ever of protoplanetary discs in a double star. The new result also helps to explain why so many exoplanets — unlike the planets in the Solar System — came to have strange, eccentric or inclined orbits. The results will appear in the journal Nature on 31 July 2014

Misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the system HK Tauri T1FhVh8d

Artist’s impression of the discs around the young stars HK Tauri A and B

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