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Description Astronomers were surprised to discover a 25-million-year-old protoplanetary disk around a pair of red dwarfs 350 light-years away in the Stephenson 34 system. Gravitational stirring by the binary star system (shown in this artist's conception) may have prevented planet formation
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Author David A. Aguilar (CfA)

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