Posted on 01/15/2019 7:52:07 AM PST by BenLurkin
There is a star system 146 light years from Earth that is quite strange. At its centre is a set of binary stars, and around that loops another binary pair. In between is a ring of dust and gas that’s set at a very odd angle.
The dust and gas of this system, which is called HD 98800, are part of a disc that may be forming planets in a kind of cosmic nursery. Instead of lying on the same plane as the central stars, this disc’s orbit is perpendicular to that.
The full system is even more confusing (see graphic, below). Picture two linked rings held in the air, one dangling from the other. These are the orbits of the central stars. The protoplanetary disc circles them, like a hula-hoop placed over the rings parallel to the ground. The outer pair of stars goes up and over the hula-hoop and comes back under to complete its orbit.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
WTH? I thought my truck had been running funny. Now we know why.
Sounds like the system in Asimov’s ‘Nightfall’....................
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
If the star system seems weird it is more likely that science is incomplete or the science is wrong.
it’s K-pax.
Good to know if I ever need a wonky planet.
There really is nothing confusing about it. Nor is it weird.
Haven’t you heard? The science is settled. There is a consensus. This system is in denial! It shouldn’t be discussed.
That’s a Democrat System. They can live an existence where they can’t discriminate between ring and thing.
Send them ALL there, TODAY!
Yes sir Mr Gore.
*ping*
Ain’t that a tampon ?
I’m still baffled why they’d name a planet after a tampon.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
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