January 6, 2016

Artistic concept of stars in their formation stage (Image courtesy Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF. All rights reserved)

At the American Astronomical Society’s meeting in Kissimmee, Florida, astronomers presented the results of research that aims to understand how come the multiple systems of stars and planets from the material on the disks of dust around new stars. The radio telescope Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) was used to study almost one hundred newborn stars in the Perseus molecular cloud to try to answer these questions.