Free Astronomy Magazine March-April 2025

MARCH-APRIL 2025 T ucked away in a star-forming region in the Taurus constella- tion, a pair of circling stars display some unexpected differ- ences in the circumstellar disks of dust and gas surrounding them. A new study led by researchers at by ALMA Observatory Nicolás Lira Bárbara Ferreira Surprising new methods planets may form C ircumstellar disks in young multiple star systems, as discovered by ALMA. Where the orbits are known, they are included with white lines. [NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/B. Saxton]