Weird binary system spotted with three rings around two stars

ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), C. GonzálezBy Rebecca Boyle
Astronomers have never seen anything like it: two stars, each swaddled in planet-forming discs – and then a third, larger disc around the entire lot. Named IRS 43, the system is 400 light years away from Earth.
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