Cosmic butterfly or interstellar burger? This planet-forming disk is the largest ever seen

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A distant planetary nursery is breaking all records as it shows the extremes to which planet formation can go.

Cosmic butterfly or interstellar burger? This planet-forming disk is the largest ever seen : Read more

 

[skynr13]

The wording in this article, 'the disk not being perfectly edge-on to us such that we can see a little more of the eastern half than the western half.' Since the star shines out from the planetary ring, then wouldn't the east and west be top and bottom or north and south?

 

[billslugg]

I looked at the original paper and the image in this article has North on top, South on bottom, East is to the left, West to the right.

 

[skynr13]

I looked at the original paper and the image in this article has North on top, South on bottom, East is to the left, West to the right.

They should have just left the article the same then. They done nothing by changing it except confuse there readers.