Astronomers peer into the ‘amniotic sac’ of a planet-hosting star

Astronomers have successfully peered through the ‘amniotic sac’ of a star that is still forming to observe the innermost region of a burgeoning solar system for the first time.

In a research paper just published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, an international team of astronomers describe surprising findings in their observations of the parent star, which is called HD 100546 or KR Muscae, 325 light-years away in the far southern constellation Musca.

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