October 16, 2018

Artist's concept of the CI Tauri system with its planets (Image courtesy Amanda Smith, Institute of Astronomy)

An article published in the journal “The Astrophysical Journal” describes the discovery of four gas giant planets orbiting the young star CI Tauri. A team of researchers coordinated by the British University of Cambridge used the ALMA radio telescope to study that star system in which one of the four planets had already been discovered, a hot Jupiter that was the first in its class to be discovered in a very young system. There’s still a protoplanetary disc that revealed gaps where the other planets formed, much farther than the one already known.