Telescope Finds Massive Possible Solar Systems
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Astronomers have spotted evidence of two mega solar systems -- giant stars enveloped by what appear to be huge disks of planet-forming dust.
Cloudy disks around stars are believed to represent current or future planetary systems. Our sun is surrounded by the Kuiper Belt, a disk containing dust, comets and other bodies. The new stars, found using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, were measured to be 30 to 70 times more massive than the sun, according to a report published Friday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
