Surprise! 3 Planet-Forming Disks Spotted Around Young Double Star

Three distinct planet-forming disks, all of which are misaligned with one another, revolve around two newborn stars in a binary system about 400 light-years from Earth, a new study reports. "The two newly formed stars are both the size of our sun, and they each have a rotating disk of gas and dust similar to the size of our solar system," study lead author Christian Brinch, an assistant professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, said in a statement. "In addition, they