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How an astronomer accidentally found a star stuck in a cosmic waltz

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University of Arizona astronomer Naman Bajaj found a double star in a series of papers.

He found out why planet-forming disks sometimes fall onto stars anchoring them.

The data points were collected by the James Webb Space Telescope in Taurus , about 457 light-years from Earth .

One of the star subjects he spent so much time with was actually a double.

TAU 042021 has been found to be a binary star system.

The two stars are separated by a distance of 1.35 AU.

The disk around the system is really (really) thick — up to 250 AU in micron-size dust grains.

The diameter of the disk is estimated to reach up to 500 AU.