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"How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this
process by studying the one example we had access to: our own Solar System.
However, the discovery of planets around distant stars in the 1990s made it
clear that the picture was much more complicated than we knew.
In new research, we have spotted a hot, Jupiter-like gas giant in the process
of forming around a star about 500 light-years from Earth.
This rare babysnap of a planet actually in the process of forming, drawing down
matter from a vast disk of dust and gas swirling around its also-infant sun,
has opened a window on mysteries that have puzzled astronomers for years."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
