Schematic image of the protoplanetary disk around GW Ori (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Schematic image of the protoplanetary disk around GW Ori

Caption

Triple young stars are located in the center and are surrounded by three rings. The innermost ring is greatly inclined against the orbital plane of the central stars and outer rings. The transparent surfaces correspond to the lower-density dust filaments that connect the rings and that dominate the emission in the scattered light seen with VLT.

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Kraus et al., 2020; NRAO/AUI/NSF

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