When a star is young,it is often still surrounded by a primordial rotating disk of gas and dust, from which planets can form. Astronomers like to find such disks because they might be able to catch the star partway through the planet formation process, and but it's highly strange to find such disks around brown dwarfs or stars with very low masses. New work from a team led by Anne Boucher of Université de Montréal,and including Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and Jacqueline Faherty, has discovered four new low-mass objects surrounded by disks. The results will be published by The Astrophysical Journal.
Source: phys.org