November 2, 2016

The L1448 IRS3B system (Image Bill Saxton, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NRAO/AUI/NSF)

An article published in the journal “Nature” describes the discovery of a triple system in formation. An international team of scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescopes to observe the system called L1448 IRS3B, where a disk of dust and gas is fragmenting into a multiple star system.