A team of scientists led by Chinese astronomers discovered two solar systems made up of two stars orbiting each othercollect state media.
The two systems, which have received the names of Bernhard-1 y Bernhard-2, are surrounded by a “rare” ring made up of gas and dustinforms the state chain CGTN.
Also, the ring “is tilted at an angle” with respect to the stars’ orbitsaccording to Zhu Weia professor at Tsinghua University who leads the international team of experts.
These types of rings or disks made up of gases and dust are normally found in the same orbital plane as the stars, in the same way that most of the planets in our solar system share an orbital plane.
The tilt of the disk means that, from our planet, we see these two stars vary in their brightness: When one of the stars is behind the ring with respect to Earth, the brightness of the binary solar system dims.
The scientists’ findings were published in the scientific journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.
JJ Zanazzian expert from the University of Toronto quoted in Chinese media, said that “The discovery of this type of objects is important to understand the formation of planets”.
“Planets are born from rings”Zanazzi explained, adding: “If rings also exist around binary stars, it is likely that we will find more planets orbiting them.”