{"id":219573,"date":"2025-08-07T04:30:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/some-young-suns-align-with-their-planet-forming-disks-others-are-born-tilted"},"modified":"2025-08-07T04:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:30:44","slug":"some-young-suns-align-with-their-planet-forming-disks-others-are-born-tilted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/some-young-suns-align-with-their-planet-forming-disks-others-are-born-tilted","title":{"rendered":"Some young suns align with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/some-young-suns-align-with-their-planet-forming-disks-others-are-born-tilted2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational axis tilted with respect to their protoplanetary disks, the clouds of gas and dust from which solar systems are born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/young+stars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">young stars<\/a> have these disks, but we\u2019ve known little about their orientations with respect to the spin axis of the host stars,\u201d said UCSB associate physics professor Brendan Bowler, who studies how planets form and evolve through their orbits and atmospheres, and is senior author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09324-0\" target=\"_blank\">a study<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>. Based on the general alignment of our own sun\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/rotational+axis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rotational axis<\/a> with those of the planets in our solar system, the assumption was that stars and their planet-forming disks emerge and rotate in or very close to alignment, he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work challenges these centuries-old assumptions,\u201d Bowler said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational axis tilted with respect to their protoplanetary disks, the clouds of gas and dust from which solar systems are born. \u201cAll young stars have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}