Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Using new receivers, coordinated radio telescopes at the Very Large Array near Socorro, New Mexico, USA, can now sharply image the dusty proto-planetary disks surrounding these young stars at radio wavelengths. Similar proto-planetary disks have been seen around single stars, but these twin disks are much smaller, each limited in size by the gravity of the nearby companion star . In fact, if large planets form orbiting near the edges of these disks they may be ejected from the binary system .
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