How two stars can form a planet in a system that has served each other’s orbits, where previous models should not tell where the planets are present? These close binary systems are so common that it could potentially locate our planets – and therefore greatly extend life. Astronomers joked about many aspects of the original Star Wars. The possibility of a planet like Tatuin with two large suns was not considered so ridiculous, but it was still considered very unlikely. If planets existed in the binary star system, it would be thought that they were probably the only ones where the gravity of one star would rarely affect the surrounding planets – yet the first confirmed planet outside our solar system is in a binary system.
The Kepler telescope has found a dozen “tattoo planets” and TSES has shown that we are missing many more. Different types of binary systems exist that are impossible to model in all situations depending on the relative size of the stars and their distances. The researchers focused on a significant significance because it closely resembles Alpha Centauri. Although we have not yet discovered any planets in the vicinity of our nearest brightest neighbor, the findings reveal areas of hope in a study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Alpha Centauri A and B orbit each other every 80 years. Dr. Roman Rafikov of Cambridge University and Dr. Cadron Silsby of the Max Planck Institute for Extra-Terrestrial Physics modeled the pair tied to a hundred-year-old dance. Rafikov said in a statement, “A system like this would be the equivalent of a second sun with Uranus, which makes our own solar system look very different.”
“Planet formation in binary systems is more complex, because the peer star acts like a giant ovary, dynamically stimulating the protoplanetary disk,” Rafikov added. This speeds up the motion of particles of gas, dust, and ice disks that surround a newly formed star, it is because they have less friction that they will stick together – instead, there are collisions that break each other.
