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ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News

ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News


Spitzer Discovers Young Stars with a 'Hula Hoop'

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:57 PM PDT

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a young stellar system that "blinks" every 93 days. Called YLW 16A, the system likely consists of three developing stars, two of which are surrounded by a disk of material left over from the star-formation process.

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