![]() ![]() The proto-planets would have to have slightly different orbital planes to cause this double warping. ![]() They attribute the fact that there are two warped disks to the presence of two planets "under construction" in the system with both exerting a gravitational pull on gas and dust around the young red dwarf. (opens in new tab) "I was flummoxed at first, and all my collaborators were like: 'what is going on?' We really had to scratch our heads and it took us a while to actually figure out an explanation."Īfter examining the problem using sophisticated models that varied the number and orientation of disks around TW Hydrae to try to reproduce Hubble's observations, the team determined that there are two misaligned disks present around the red dwarf both casting shadows on its outer disk. When I first looked at the data, I thought something had gone wrong with the observation because it wasn't what I was expecting," principal investigator and Space Telescope Science Institute researcher John Debes, said in a statement. "We found out that the shadow had done something completely different. ![]() Debes STScI) (opens in new tab) A flummoxing discovery Concentric disks of gas and dust around TW Hydrae as seen by Hubble over five years show a shadow creeping around the planet's birthing material. ![]()
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