{"id":239134,"date":"2026-06-17T03:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/young-disk-around-wray-15-1880-may-contain-a-primitive-planetary-system"},"modified":"2026-06-17T03:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:24:11","slug":"young-disk-around-wray-15-1880-may-contain-a-primitive-planetary-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/young-disk-around-wray-15-1880-may-contain-a-primitive-planetary-system","title":{"rendered":"Young disk around WRAY 15\u20131880 may contain a primitive planetary system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/young-disk-around-wray-15-1880-may-contain-a-primitive-planetary-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italian astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to perform polarimetric observations of the star WRAY 15\u20131880 and its young circumstellar disk. Results of the new observations, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2606.10816\" target=\"_blank\">presented<\/a> June 10 on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server, suggest that this disk may host a primitive planetary system.<\/p>\n<p>Circumstellar disks are accretion disks orbiting stars, composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids or collision fragments. Around the youngest stars, they are the reservoirs of material out of which planets may form.<\/p>\n<p>At a distance of some 492 light-years from Earth, WRAY 15\u20131880 (also known as RX J1842.9\u20133532) is a solar-type classical T Tau star in the CrA-North subregion of the Corona Australis (CrA) complex. It has a mass of around 1.24 solar masses and is estimated to be 2.8 million years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to perform polarimetric observations of the star WRAY 15\u20131880 and its young circumstellar disk. Results of the new observations, presented June 10 on the arXiv preprint server, suggest that this disk may host a primitive planetary system. Circumstellar disks are accretion disks orbiting stars, composed of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239134","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=239134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}