Saturday, August 24, 2013

ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News

ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News


A fluffy disk around a baby star

Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:11 AM PDT

Astronomers have observed a disk around the young star RY Tau (Tauri). The team's analysis of the disk shows that a "fluffy" layer above it is responsible for the scattered light observed in the infrared image. Detailed comparisons with computer simulations of scattered light from the disk reveal that this layer appears to be a remnant of material from an earlier phase of stellar and disk development, when dust and gas were falling onto the disk.

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