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Saturday, September 28, 2019

Relevant to Juniors: New Star-Exoplanet system found close to us

Especially juniors, check out this article about a large gas giant planet, similar to Jupiter, orbiting a small dwarf star. There are many questions astronomers are asking about how a small star could form large planets, but regardless it is there! This is a new binary system like we have been studying. Enjoy!

This is the link to the binary star simulation we used in class.

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