A distant star system has Milky Way-like spiral arms orbiting it. New research suggests a giant planet may be to blame.
Our Milky Way galaxy is a collection of stars famously arranged in a series of spiral arms wrapped around a black hole center. But galaxies aren't the only spiral structures in the universe; individual stars can have swirling, spiral arms as well. And new research is helping to unravel how — and why — they form.
The exoplanet, called MWC 758c, lies in a very young star system about 500 million light-years from Earth. Its parent star still sits in the center of a protoplanetary disk — an amalgamation of dust and rocky objects that have not yet condensed into planets, moons and asteroids. related stories—Mysterious 'zombie planet' Halla seems to have survived the explosive death of its star. How?—Bizarre object hotter than the sun is orbiting a distant star at breakneck speed
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