Astronomers discover parallel disks and jets bursting from a pair of young stars

At left, a mid-infrared image of the rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the focus is on the WL20 star system. At right, WL20 is enlarged to reveal an artist’s impression of this new discovery. Astronomers couldn’t believe their luck when observations at multiple radio and infrared wavelengths by ALMA and … Read more