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English: The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured this unprecedented image of two circumstellar disks, in which baby stars are growing, feeding with material from their surrounding birth disk. The complex network of dust structures distributed in spiral shapes remind of the loops of a pretzel. These observations shed new light on the earliest phases of the lives of stars and help astronomers determine the conditions in which binary stars are born.
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Source https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1916a/
Author ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Alves et al.

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Two circumstellar disks in Pipe Nebula

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